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Back Stem Cell Treatment: Counseling a Patient on Stem Cells

I was recently contacted by a patient about a back stem cell treatment. A young man in his twenties wanted to know whether his MRI and his history were a good fit for the multiple therapies offered by clinics hawking stem cells to treat back pain. After looking at his MRI, my first response was,…read more

Do Arthritis Exercises Work? New Research Says Less Pain Related to Leg Strength

I’ve been asked many times by patients, “Do arthritis exercises work?” Knee arthritis is an exploding epidemic as our population becomes older and heavier. Several studies have confirmed that exercise is one simple remedy for the pain and lost function that comes with knee arthritis. However, nobody has been quite sure why this works. Now a…read more

Orthopedics 2.0 3rd Edition Now on Kindle!

Orthopedics 2.0 3rd Edition Kindle! Our practice is committed to something different than most clinics offering stem cells for orthopedic problems. We’re focused on reworking orthopedic care through what we call, Interventional Orthopedics. This means a complete overhaul of how we understand, diagnose, and treat knee, back, shoulder, hip, and other problems. This also includes…read more

Who Has Published the Most Stem Cell Research in Orthopedics? Where’s the Beef?

There are many patients looking for stem cell treatments of their knee, hip, shoulder, ankle, etc… There are now many web-sites who offer to treat these conditions, many claiming to be world renowned experts in the area. Regrettably for most of these companies and clinics, like the old Arby’s commercial, when you ask, “Where’s the…read more

Using Big Data for Knee Stem Cell Research

“Big Data” has been all the rage in medicine in this past few years. The idea has both been embraced by and shaken up academic circles. We’ve been a big fan of big data and frequently use it to determine who are the best candidates for our knee stem cell procedure. The idea that data…read more

New 4 Year Knee Arthritis Stem Cell Treatment Research

What’s the latest in knee arthritis stem cell treatment research? Awhile back I published the pain/functional data for 2014. As you know, we publish data from our registry about once a year. Rather than sending a few questionnaires to patients, we have an advanced registry that tracks every patent treated. The most interesting thing about the…read more

Celling Stem Cells for DDD: A Critique of a Critique

Not too long ago, a large dust-up occurred on a Linkedin discussion board about the use of stem cells to treat low back discs. There was the usual back and forth of skepticism among physicians that many discussions generate. The issue began when a patient with degenerative disc disease pointed to the Pettine stem cell…read more

Fat Stem Cells Fail to Help Shoulder Rotator Cuff Injuries Heal

One of the biggest debates in the stem cell field right now is over the role of adipose stem cells versus their cousins derived from bone marrow. While bone marrow stem cells have been used extensively for orthopedic injuries going back to the 1990s, adipose stem cells have only been used to any significant degree…read more