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SR: Low Back Disc Stem Cell Save

Like every procedure ever used in the history of medicine, ours has it’s successes and failures. For a physician, the successes are always more fun and some of those can get to be routine. However, every once in awhile you see a patient were the success was life changing. SR and her low back disc stem…read more

New Regenexx Difference Video: Regenexx vs Other Stem Cell Treatments

When we began this work using stem cells to treat orthopedic injuries in 2005, there was nobody else in the United States doing this type of work. As the years progressed we saw a few other clinics pop up, but these past few years clinics have been popping up like crazy. More importantly, as I…read more

Are Many Lab Based Stem Cell Research Studies Invalid?

One of the stem cell research groups that I run is a non-profit involved with in-vitro lab experiments that require donor cells. What I recently learned about the details of how stem cells are routinely procured by universities for research was very disturbing and may invalidate many of the published lab experiments that we all…read more

New Discoveries: Aging and the Cell and Bridges?

Everyone gets old, if they’re lucky enough.  There are choices we can make to slow down parts of the aging process, but what causes aging in the first place?  To answer that question you need to be able to examine and characterize what’s going on at the cellular level. A novel study was able to do just…read more

Does Your Stem Cell Doctor Know What He’s Doing?

This past year or so I have lectured at many conferences and taught a few courses on the orthopedic use of stem cells. What I have seen and experienced concerns me greatly. With the explosion in stem cell use this past year, the number of people doing it well has become a smaller and smaller…read more

Dr. Centeno Lecturing at AAOM Today

Dr. Centeno will be lecturing at the American Academy of Orthopedic Medicine annual conference workshop this weekend. He will discuss Fat versus Bone Stem Cells today and tomorrow will be teaching a Bone Marrow Aspiration course to physicians.

Back Pain Won’t Stop? Multifidus Research Update

Most patients don’t realize that if their back pain won’t stop that there’s usually a simple reason that’s invisible to their doctor. In addition, it’s hiding in plain sight on their MRI images, it’s just that nobody with a firm knowledge of the research on chronic low back pain has ever looked. This finding is called…read more

Knee Cap Hurts? Just Cut It Out!

At first I thought the study was the National Library of Medicine’s version of the popular spoof news service “The Onion”. Here was a study stating that if the knee cap hurts, you should just remove it surgically. After all, let’s not try to help the pain, that wastes a perfectly good scalpel! However, this…read more