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You Can Blame Your Parents for Your Knee Arthritis Genes…

Genetics is steadily becoming a part of medicine. However, one area where genetics isn’t yet prevalent is in arthritis care. A recent study shows that that may soon change. The concept that your genes are important for disease risk is finding it’s way into many areas of medicine. For example, off the shelf genetics tests…read more

Bad Posture Shoulder Pain? Is Your Rotator Cuff Torn Up?

Are you concerned about bad posture shoulder pain? Your mother always told you to sit up straight! However, can your bad posture rip up your shoulder rotator cuff tendons? A new study suggests that it can. Posture in medicine is often overlooked, but in physical therapy and chiropractic it’s often emphasized. As we get older,…read more

Do Shoulder Rotator Cuff Tears Hurt?

Almost every physician practicing today (and hence almost every patient) has been taught a structural model of pain. Meaning, if we take an MRI of the part that hurts and see something abnormal, then that abnormality must be causing the pain. But what if this whole model was not accurate? What if just as many…read more

Curcumin for Knee Arthritis? New Research…

Why are we so focused on getting patients on Curcumin for knee arthritis and other types of pain? After all, what evidence is there that this Indian spice is helpful for patients with arthritis or other types of chronic musculoskeletal pain? Why should you take Curcumin and ditch your NSAID drugs? A new study adds…read more

Stem Cells for Back Pain? One Patient’s Experience…

Stem cells for back pain have been a big topic this past year or so. This is Claire’s story, who I think like many, believed that a stem cell injection in her spine could help her disability. When I first saw her MRI and heard her story though I was a bit daunted, I knew that she would need…read more

Cholesterol Drugs and Statins Diabetes Risk!

Every once in awhile I see a graph of clinical data that just blows me away. Eric Topol, a well known physician in the genetics and personalized medicine movement, tweeted this graph from a research study published in the medical journal Diabetologia. I was so floored that I had to pull down the paper. It…read more

Back Surgery Problems: Avoiding Surgery with Regenexx

PA is a local attorney who had the misfortune of having low back surgery in high school, which led to back surgery problems in his 40s. Being an active aging athlete with a dirt bike career on the side, one day in 2013 his back gave out. He was told he needed surgery, now almost…read more

New Hip Replacement Device Causes Tumors in 1/3 of Patients!

I still see patients signing up to get metal on metal hip replacement or minimally invasive hip surgery. This is despite many studies now showing severe complications with this concept. Now a new study shows scary high rates of psuedotumor formation in these Birmingham hips. The concept of a minimally invasive hip or a smaller…read more