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Chondroitin Better Than Celebrex in Study!

Glucosamine and chondroitin have been the red headed stepchildren of modern medicine for many years. While a chunk of more alternative medicine minded family physicians would recommend them and their use has skyrocketed due to a mass of supplement products, the average family doc was much more likely to prescribe pharma concoctions like Celebrex than…read more

Fat Chance: Top 3 Stem Cell “Controversies”

This past week it came to my attention that the fat stem cell boys were spinning it again “big” time at a conference. I guess when you’re the new kid on the stem cell block, you have to work harder and cut a few corners of reality to get noticed. This seems like a great…read more

What is a Bone Spur?

I see many patients a year who ask the question, “What is a bone spur?”. Many have been told they have this “disease” and most are frankly “freaked out” about it. The good news is that bone spurs have gotten a bum rap. The video above explains everything in two minutes, but a bone spur…read more

Can We Treat Knee Arthritis with Stem Cells?

We often get nice e-mails from former patients whom we have treated with stem cells. Many of them tell stories of new found or regained activity. In fact, a common theme that runs through our patients is that they have hit that time in life when what they want to do and what they can…read more

Back Pain Stem Cells: A Key Regenexx Patent Issues

We’ve been treating low back discs with stem cells for about a decade. In all of that time, we realized that there was a need for a device that would allow us to place stem cells into parts of the disc that traditional needles couldn’t reach. As a result we designed the device and submitted…read more

A2M Knee Injections: What’s in Your Arthritic Knee?

Regenexx is unique in the world as when everyone else is just beginning to use stem cells to see if they may help, we’ve been refining the science behind this technology for a decade. One of the fascinating things we’ve been doing lately is taking synovial fluid samples from patients before and after our procedures and…read more

Dr. Centeno to Speak in Dubai in Janurary

I grew up as a kid fascinated by science who like many of the youth my age had that fire stoked by the Apollo space program. However, before that I was actually fascinated by Ancient Egypt. So several months ago, when a colleague in Dubai asked me to speak at the Arab Health symposium on…read more

Stem Cell Novice vs. Stem Cell Expert: Knowing What’s Injected…

Is your doctor an expert at stem cell therapy, or a novice? How would you know? Earlier this week I wrote about a simple question regarding a bone marrow aspiration that you could ask to tell the difference. This morning I have another question for you to ask your doctor – does he or she…read more