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Regenexx ProActive Free on Kindle Through Friday!

We just launched my new Regenexx ProActive book on Kindle and to get everyone to read it, we’ve made it free through Friday. This is a book that got started when I realized that what we doctors did for each other wasn’t being done for patients. Basically, we treated small problems with our advanced platelet…read more

Mass Manufactured Stem Cells Fail in Stroke Trial

Gee, I could have seen this one coming from a mile away…oh wait, I did see it coming. This week a company called Athersys reported that they missed both outcome endpoints in a trial using the company’s mass manufactured stem cells to treat strokes. The big story isn’t that the stem cells didn’t help stroke…read more

Can a Blood Forming Stem Cell Repair Chronic Muscle Tears?

While mesenchymal stem cells get all of the attention in bone marrow stem cell treatments, a lesser known blood forming stem cell is how your body fixes muscle damage. Click the video above to find out more about how to repair chronic muscle tears…

A Hip Stem Cell Treatment In An Aikido Master

Lynne is a force to be reckoned with, or shall I say a “redirected” force. Her love is Aikido, the Japanese martial art of redirecting your attacker’s forces back on him or her, using their energy to allow the smallest defenders to thwart the largest attackers. So when she realized that she had hip arthritis,…read more

Heavy Drinkers Destroy Stem Cells for Life?

The issue of alcohol use always comes up in stem cell treatments – is it good or bad? Should I abstain or continue to have a glass of wine or two? Now a recent study has weighed in on the topic, albeit with a model of Fetal Alcoholism Syndrome (FAS) rather than a model that…read more

Stem Cell Nutty…

Every once in awhile I survey the on-line stem cell clinic landscape and each time I do I come away a bit more puzzled than the last. Way back in 2005 when we began doing this work, there literally was no one else in the United States using stem cells for orthopedic injuries. Back then…read more

1 of 2 Slots for the 2016 Interventional Orthopedics Fellowship Announced

We’re proud to be the only dedicated Regenerative Medicine Fellowship focused on Interventional Orthopedics that includes intensive training in advanced injection techniques for all parts of the body. We will be enlarging our traditional one year program in 2016 to take two fellows. Yesterday we announced the first slot was filled by offering the position to…read more

Stem Cell Training? Our New Interventional Orthopedics Fellowship Programs

Stem cell training is one of the examples of what I call the stem cell wild west.  I just had a colleague debrief me after his return from a weekend stem cell training course. The differences between what he learned in that course and the type of training we give physicians for the Regenexx Network is…read more