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Take this 5 Minute Orthopedics 2.0 Symmetry Test Now!

Why did we develop the 5 Minute  Orthopedics 2.0 Symmetry test?  Patients are often surprised to find out that their body is no longer symmetrical. Others have noticed that a certain area has been getting tight for years. Either way, going through an intensive 5-minute test of all major body joints checking for symmetry is…read more

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2012 Round-up: The Best Stem Cell Review Blog Posts You may Have Missed…

Now that the world didn’t end this year, I thought I’d pull together a round-up of the top 10 stem cell review blog posts and regenerative orthopedics posts of 2012. It’s been an exciting year for the Regenexx team, as evidenced by these posts: 1. Billionaire philanthropist invests in the Regenexx team.  Dr. John Malone supported our growing effort…read more

Knee Steroid Shot Side Effects-Is a Narcotic Shot Better?

Steroid shots in the knee are bad news, because of the damaging knee steroid shot side effects.  These powerful anti-inflammatory injections are often added to local anesthetics, both of which kill cartilage quite dead. If there is a single common knee shot that will harm your knee more than anything else, it’s a steroid shot with the very common local…read more

Another Torn Knee Meniscus Helped by Stem Cells

Another torn knee meniscus stem cell treatment success!  Leslie was first seen by our clinic in March of 2011. I’ll let her tell for own story below, but she was treated at that time with the Regenexx-AD stem cell procedure with a highly accurate injection of her own stem cells under ultrasound guidance directly into…read more

Cholesterol Drugs Harm Muscles

Cholesterol drugs harm muscles!  As I’ve blogged many times before, we’ve seen severe inhibition of stem cell growth in culture due to statin cholesterol drugs. As a result, I’ve spent time combing the medical literature to trying to understand why. After all, if you believe the ads and studies sponsored by big pharma, these are…read more

More Evidence Mounts that Steroid Epidural Injections have Significant Side Effects

More evidence mounts that steroid epidural side effects are significant and consequently, this has been a horrible several months for epidural steroid injections. There have been several studies showing significant bone loss due to the high dose steroids, others showing a stark increase in bone osteonecrosis with oral steroids, used as well as the NECC compounding tragedy.…read more

What is CRPS? Does Regenerative Medicine Have a Role?

Is there a CRPS alternative treatment? CRPS means complex regional pain syndrome and it’s a nasty nerve disease that’s almost untreatable. Why? The best way to understand why is to conceptualize what CRPS is and how it works. Let’s say the speed of your car represents nerve pain. Most of us have a system to accelerate that…read more