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Why Can’t I Get Rid of Heel Pain?

Have you tried everything you can think of to get rid of heel pain? Have you tried physical therapy, medications, calf stretches, devices for heel pain you see in ads—all without long-term relief? Has a doctor injected steroids into your heel to treat your plantar fasciitis. How much relief did that buy you? The truth…read more

Just a New Video on Tight Hamstrings this Morning!

This is one I explain all the time to patients with chronically tight hamstrings. It’s likely a warning sign of a smoldering low back problem! Enjoy!

Our Orthopedic Stem Cell Research Program

We’re in the middle of construction at our Colorado facility as the clinic is upgraded and expanded. It’s now the largest orthopedic regenerative medicine facility in the U.S. However, as part of that expansion, I had to let some workmen into our medical-gas storage area, and as I punched in the code and opened the…read more

Regenexx Is Very Different: Bending Reality

This week was interesting in that we had a clinic in Pakistan, of all places, claim to be working with us (that really wasn’t), and this morning I’d like to focus on issues closer to home. I’d like to use what we found out about a local clinic as a way to help all patients…read more

Regenexx Pakistan?

I guess you know you’ve created a powerful movement when the name of a patented medical procedure gets “borrowed” by physicians to promote what they do. Case in point is an ad from a Pakistani news site that we found yesterday (above). While it’s not the first time others were able to claim they’re doing…read more

How Do You Explain Interventional Orthopedics?

This past week an ex-college football coach visited our Colorado facility. I struggled for a few minutes to explain how different interventional orthopedics is from what he knew of orthopedic stem cell injections. This is a video version of what I drew on the dry-erase board for him, and since this is often a tough thing…read more

Rotator Cuff Healing May Depend On Your Genes

As I’ve said many times, the structural model of orthopedics that depends on sewing things together to help pain is on its deathbed as study after study show that these types of surgeries are ineffective. That same paradigm shift holds true in rotator cuff repair, where recent research shows that the surgery was unable to beat…read more

How Regenexx Is Very Different: Agnostic to Sales Guys

Last night I logged yet another monthly webinar, which went well, until I had to deal with an angry medical salesperson on LinkedIn. Like many who have come before him, he didn’t like my take on amniotic fluid products, a product that his conference company was pitching. It was an interesting conversation that revealed much…read more