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Supraspinatus Tears & Stem Cells – Clinical Trial Returns Jiu Jitsu Competitor to the Podium
This is a guest post from Regenexx® Dr. Jamil Bashir from the Centeno Schultz Clinic in Broomfield, Colorado Creating a new field of Medicine is no easy task. Change always encounters resistance and transforming thought cannot occur without evidence, reproducible evidence. In Medicine, clinical trials are the standard used to produce such evidence. With the…read more
“All I Want to Do is Dance!”
Enjoy the latest Regenexx video by documentary filmmaker Doug Orchard as he follows Don and Marie’s quest to keep dancing their way through an active life!
Can a Precise Stem Cell Injection Work Where Surgery Fears to Tread?
A patient recently came to us with a very serious problem. She had not only a shoulder bone (humerus) fracture, but also osteonecrosis. Her orthopedic surgeons had told her that trying to get this to heal would be like trying to bolt tissue paper to tissue paper and consequently there was no surgical solution. As…read more
Shoulder Stem Cell Repair? A Weightlifter’s Journey…
Todd is a middle aged man who tore his rotator cuff when lifting weights and was told he needed surgery to repair the tear. Todd chose to avoid the knife and instead got his own stem cells precisely injected into the tear using sophisticated imaging guidance. Now that he’s a year out from those shots,…read more
A Colorado Regenexx Patient Review: Pain Free!
We received this Colorado Regenexx Patient Review recently from a patient who wanted to share his experience at Regenexx Colorado. When he contacted Regenexx he was in excruciating pain, and his local physician’s treatment had made the situation worse rather than better… “So, recently I started to get a pain in my right arm, just below the shoulder.…read more
Helping Another Shoulder Rotator Cuff Tear Heal…
I was recently contacted by Donna, a woman in her 60’s that we treated last spring for a shoulder rotator cuff tear. Back then, Donna was told that she had a full thickness rotator cuff tear that needed surgery. Last week she informed me that our precise injection of stem cells had worked well –…read more
Very Early Shoulder Rotator Cuff Stem Cell Study Data
As many of my readers know, we have sponsored several different randomized controlled trials using stem cell injections to treat several different orthopedic conditions. One of those is a rotator cuff stem cell study. This study is about 1/3 through it’s recruitment goal and we have some 6 month data, so I’ll report it here…read more
