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Is My Rotator Cuff Tear Causing My Shoulder Pain?

Patients tend to believe their doctor, so when their doctor tells them their shoulder pain is due to a rotator cuff tear seen on MRI, most don’t question it. But maybe you should? More and more studies continue to show that shoulder MRI results often can’t predict why the patient hurts. So if we were to…read more

Decreasing Shoulder Instability Recovery Time with Stress Ultrasound

Shoulder instability recovery time is a big deal because procedures to stabilize the shoulder typically cause major life disruption. What if there was a better way? What if by accurately measuring the amount of instability using ultrasound and then using your own platelets or stem cells we were able to help stabilize the shoulder without…read more

Cut Your Shoulder Dislocation Surgery Recovery Time

One way to cut your shoulder dislocation surgery recovery time is to skip the surgery and opt for advanced interventional orthopedics instead. That’s what Penn State college lacrosse player Matt Florence did. Facing huge surgery with massive loss of playing time, he ditched the 1990s approach to his shoulder problems and opted for new technology from…read more

Shoulder Surgery Side Effects: Common Procedure Is Bad News

Old shoulder surgery habits die hard, despite the side effects. This past week I posted the results of a study showing that adding in an acromioplasty surgery to a rotator cuff tear doesn’t help patients. One surgeon who loves the procedure protested that removing the stabilizing ligaments of this part of the shoulder is without…read more

Acromioplasty: Why This Frequent Addition to Rotator Cuff Surgery Is Usually a Bad Idea

Acromioplasty: To Chop a Shoulder or Not Chop a Shoulder…That Is the Question Is acromioplasty a beneficial addition to rotator cuff surgery, and is recovery time impacted by this addition to shoulder surgery? One of the big issues with rotator cuff surgery is the long recovery time spent in an immobilizer brace. Unfortunately, the more procedures…read more

5 Compelling Reasons to Consider a Stem Cell Shoulder Treatment Instead of Surgery

The shoulder is an amazing and complex ball-and-socket joint and is the most mobile joint in the body. This unique mobility is possible because the socket portion of the joint is quite shallow, so it requires a group of four tendons—the rotator cuff—to hold the ball firmly in the socket as you lift and rotate…read more

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

How to Get Off Migraine Medications: Trudy’s Story

When Trudy first walked into the office I’m not ashamed to say that I was overwhelmed. Not only did she want to know how to get off migraine medications, but also how to get off other meds she was taking for her neck, back, shoulders, and knees. She could only stand for 5 minutes before…read more
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