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Traditional vs. Regenerative Spine Care

Yesterday in the clinic I had two patients before lunch that define the differences between our traditional existing spine treatment paradigms and what our clinic defines as Regenerative Spine Care (using platelets and stem cells to treat patients with bad discs, facet joints, or ligaments). The first patient was a late thirties father who had been in…read more

The Scientist, The Doctor, and the Patient…

This past week I’ve been hyper-focused on updating our long-term disc data and finally met my match yesterday. These are low back stem cell patients who had bulging low back discs treated with precise stem cell injections. It’s always an arduous task to pull all of this together, especially when some of the patients were treated in…read more

Is Your Multifidus Muscle Fried? How Would Your Know?

I’ve blogged a number of times about the multifidus muscle, an important stabilizer of the spine that most patients with low back pain have never heard about. Today’s video was inspired by a patient I saw in clinic this past week who had an interesting MRI. He had a fusion in his low back while…read more

Hip Replacement Cobalt Levels: A “House” Call

Like an attorney who doesn’t like watching legal shows, I generally hate watching medical shows-home time is generally downtime (other than writing the blog and working on a million different things in between engaging with my family). So I missed a recent House episode on hip replacement cobalt poisoning, but apparently it helped make a diagnosis that…read more

A Severe Knee Arthritis Patient Treated with Stem Cells: Getting Back to the Stories that We Doctors Love…

This past few months I’ve had a hyper-focus on Regenexx-SD outcome data, which is information from our treatment registry. In talking to patients in that arduous process of finalizing treatment data sets, I’ve heard some great stories. For the most part what separates Regenexx from everything else out there is real world data in literally…read more

This is Thoracotomy Recovery?

So this is thoracotomy recovery? SS is a 61 year old woman who had a portion of her lung removed due to lung cancer 6 years ago. To get there, the doctor’s did what’s called a thoracotomy, or a procedure where the chest wall is opened by cutting between the ribs. Like many patients who…read more

How Stem Cells Work: iPSC and STAP or How to Create Artificial Stem Cells from Natural Cells

How Stem Cells Work – Part 8 Today’s entry in our “How Stem Cells Work” short format video series is about iPS and STAP. iPS has been in the news for years, as scientists in Japan were able to take natural skin cells and turn them into artificial embryonic stem cells. STAP has been in…read more

How Stem Cells Work: Pulmonary First Pass Effect or Highway to the Lungs

How Stem Cells Work – Part 7 To continue our “How Stem cells Work” short format video series, this episode brings up the sticky issue of stem cells getting stuck. Stem cell therapies come in many forms, but a common one is IV injection of cells. Despite this, there’s ample research to show that many…read more