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Avoid Low Back Surgery by Learning More About the Most Important Back Muscle You’ve Never Heard Of…

If you want to avoid low back surgery, click on our video above (you may want to hit the replay button a few times to get a sense of it). It shows what happens to your low back bones when you walk (the green and red 3-D shapes). They move as well, but their movement…read more

Upper Back Surgery Procedures to Avoid

I always tell my patients that upper back surgery procedures are awful. If you happen to have a big herniated upper back disc pressing on your nerves and spinal cord or bony stenosis doing the same, an upper back surgery to remove the pressure is a much bigger and more invasive procedure than even low…read more

Your Beer Gut is Hurting Your Bones while Running Too Hard May Kill You?

Wow, what a wacky week of medical news in exercise and health. This morning, a paper was released from the RSNA conference showing that Harvard researchers linked abdominal obesity (think beer gut) with soft bones that could lead to a hip fracture. This one actually makes sense in light of what we know about metabolic…read more

Have Elbow Pain? Check Your Shoulder…

Baseball elbow check shoulder makes perfect sense to someone who understands biomechanics.  But to traditional American medicine, biomechanics is like an impossible to solve Rubik’s cube. The title of our Orthopedics 2.0 book is based on the concept that for physicians to truly understand orthopedic injuries, they have to throw out many of the old…read more

Knee Arthritis: The Exercise and Cartilage Wars Begin…

A long time ago in a galaxy far far…oh wait, that’s another story. I’ve blogged a few times on whether running is good or bad for your knees, and whether or not it contributes to knee arthritis, as the research seems to be all over the map. Well here’s another installment where the exercise=arthritis guys strike back. A…read more

Can We Regenerate a Radial Nerve with a Regenexx-PL Nerve Hydrodissection under Ultrasound Guidance?

Can we help a patient with radial nerve palsy due to a humerus fracture get back function by using sophisticated nerve imaging and injections to break up scar tissue around the nerve and provide healing growth factors? I’ve blogged on this before and I’ve tried to be a bit reserved, but I’ve seen patients who…read more

Only a Small Response to Regenexx-SD for Knee Patellofemoral Syndrome

We believe in transparency. Stem cell procedures for orthopedics aren’t magic and sometimes they fail or produce less than stellar results. MD is a 53 year old previously very active runner/biker who sought our advice about knee patellofemoral syndrome with chronic pain in February of this year. He had cartilage loss under the knee cap and was deemed a fair candidate for…read more

Epidurals Steroid Shots Increase Fracture Risk in One Study

Epidural steroid side effects have been in the news because of serious issues with some compounded steroid medications. In addition, the drug maker of the most commonly used high dose steroid in epidurals has stated that their drug shouldn’t be used this way. Just how safe are epidural steroids shots when steroids are injected into…read more