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Helping to Sort Hype from Reality in Knee Stem Cell Arthritis Treatments

We’re seeing an explosion in physicians using stem cells for problems such as knee arthritis from small private clinics to university orthopedic and pain management departments. On the one hand, as the physicians with the most experience in the country using stem cells for orthopedic problems like knee arthritis, it’s helpful to have that company.…read more

Introducing the Regenexx-SD Plus Procedure…

As many of you know, we spend heavily on innovation. It’s a little humorous sometimes to see small clinics claim they’re doing innovative stem cell work (or what we’re doing) by simply taking a weekend course somewhere and using old technology. In contrast, we have a PhD led lab research team and a physician/bio stats…read more

The Body and Bones Electric: The Nanomachines Inside Your Bone

How Do Bones Work? Most people (and some physicians) think of their bones as inanimate cement. In fact, in composition, your bones are more like hard plastic that gives and absorbs force. In addition, your bones are quite alive and actively respond to force by continually rebuilding themselves. For example, the bones of a ballet…read more

Will the Clinical Promise of Stem Cells be Wasted by Profit Over Science?

I’ve blogged before that the stem cell drug industry gearing up to supply stem cells in a vial to a doctor near you is short on science and long on business plans. What do I mean? I’ve never quite understood how this was all going to work, shipping live cells frozen and not having a…read more

Is Disc Stem Cell Therapy for Real?

I have a lot to blog about this morning with many subjects waiting in the cue, but every once in awhile a subject is pressing enough that it needs to be blogged immediately. This morning that subject is disc stem cell therapy. Yesterday a patient on a discussion board about biologic orthopedics jumped in on…read more

The 7 Most Common Headache Causes and Cures…

The headache treatment world is a weird place when it comes to headache causes and cures. On the one side you have neurologists who focus on vascular headaches known as migraine and throw drugs at the problem. On the other side you have musculoskeletal (MSK) practitioners like chiropractors, physical therapists, acupuncturists, massage therapists and the…read more

Want to Avoid Neck Injury? Use a Loud Tone!

Most physicians haven’t caught up to the ground breaking research of the late 90s to the early 2000s showing that neck injury in a car crash (whiplash) is often caused by injuries to the small joints known as facets. These little joints can become damaged as a weird “S-shaped” curve is forced on the neck by…read more

Three Things You Can Do to Save Yourself a Lifetime Of Neck Pain!

Neck injuries in car crashes are a big issue. In fact, such a big deal that major car makers have been designing seats for years to reduce the risk of serious neck injury. What used to be called “whiplash” with a roll of the eye, is now known to be host of serious injuries such…read more