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My Hip Arthroscopy Blog: More Side Effects

While this is not specifically a hip arthroscopy blog, through the years I have discussed the many negative experiences my patients have had with the surgery. My first realization of the serious side effects of the procedure came back in 2008, when we borrowed a hip distraction unit form an orthopedic surgery practice to test…read more

Stem Cell Treatment Reviews: Expert vs. Novice?

As a patient who is considering stem cell treatment it’s nearly impossible to tell if your doctor knows what he’s doing, or, has no idea. You can search for things like “stem cell treatment reviews”, but that doesn’t tell you how qualified your physician may be. If you’re getting a bone marrow stem cell treatment…read more

Second Chance with Regenexx Knee Stem Cell Injections

All too often, what we do becomes routine. You go to work, see your patients, intervene in their lives, and go home, eat dinner, watch something, interact with the family, catch up on e-mails, and go to bed to wake up and repeat. If you’re a bit crazy like me, you insert in there waking…read more

The Problems with Evidence Based Medicine

“EBM is based on a statistical blunder: the assumption that a population value can be applied to one specific individual. This is known as the ecological fallacy . . . it is fundamentally incorrect to apply the results of large-scale trials to individual patients. Despite this, the EBM myth is that individual patients should be treated…read more

What is Regenexx?

This past week I was responsible for our annual Regenexx network conference, chairing the IOF conference, and organizing a bone marrow aspirate cadaver course. I’m pretty exhausted, but a common question I was asked several times over the past few days inspired this morning’s blog. That was, “What is Regenexx?”. The more I answered that…read more

The First Annual Interventional Orthopedics Foundation Conference!

Yesterday, was truly a historic day! It was the First Annual Interventional Orthopedics Foundation Conference. Doctors from all over the country gathered to brainstorm how to move the field of Interventional Orthopedics forward and make it available to as many people as possible.  Interventional Orthopedics brings new treatment options for bone and joint problems using orthobiologic…read more

DDD and Exercise…A Good Idea or a Bad Idea?

DDD and exercise…can it help in promoting healing? Exercise is again one of those inherently good things for your body, but in cases of Degenerative Disc Disease, are there types of exercise that help, and types to avoid? A recent study looks at the regenerative potential of a particular type of exercise in DDD patients.…read more

Knee Arthritis Stem Cell Research: Can We Improve the Soil?

What are we doing for knee arthritis stem cell research? I remember a while back a book was published that said to get to mastery of a subject you had to do it at least several thousand times. I had only to look at my son as an example, who at that time spent hours…read more