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Hiking Up Pikes Peak with Knee Arthritis after Stem Cells

Hiking Up Pikes Peak with Knee arthritis after Stem Cells….  Can stem cells help severe knee arthritis enough to allow someone to climb a 14 thousand foot peak? BL is a 64 year old man with increasing knee pain after 3 knee surgeries on the right knee and 5 on the left knee. Just before seeing us…read more

More NSAID Heart Risk: These Very Dangerous Drugs Continue to Show How Dangerous They Are

NSAID drugs are dangerous. They have been associated with dramatically raising the risk of a sudden death heart attack and now a recent study has discovered, once you’ve already had a heart attack, NSAID’s raise your risk for another heart attack for 5 years. The study, published online in the journal Circulation showed that the increased cardiovascular risk with…read more

Common Causes of Chronic Knee Pain Infographic

Knee pain, like hip pain can come from many things. All too often a quick MRI is taken and without much work-up or due diligence, a patient is told that they need surgery based on some finding. Again, we often see these patients after the fact, many still with the same or similar knee pain.…read more

Common Causes of Chronic Hip Pain Infographic

I’ve blogged before that many patients with chronic pain in the hip don’t have pain coming from the hip joint, but elsewhere. For example, hip pain can be caused by irritated nerves in the low back, an SI joint problem, muscle trigger points, or arthritis in the hip. The concern is that after seeing something on a hip MRI and before…read more

Infographic on Patellofemoral Treatment

Infographic on Patellofemoral Treatment Could Save your Knee What better to follow an infographic on the causes of patellofemoral syndrome than an infographic on patellofemoral treatment?  This one goes over most of the treatment we would consider, so it provides a survey of the Orthopedics 2.0 approach for this condition. This doesn’t mean that in…read more

Calorie Restriction works in Mice, In Monkeys Not so Much…

You may have read about the monkey study testing whether long-term calorie restriction could extend human lifespans. Researchers have been testing these over and under fed monkeys for decades based on the concept that calorie restriction in mice allows them to live allot longer. The good news is that underfed monkeys are healthier and fitter than their overfed and fat counterparts.…read more

Eight Weeks Out and Still No Improvement?

We feel Regenexx transparent reporting is incredibly important , so it’s only right that after all the great testimonials and wonderful data infographics, that we highlight someone where the procedure hasn’t worked thus far. JB is a 17 year old WM who came to us in early July who had reported being much worse after…read more

Taking the weekend off blogging…

Taking some much needed R and R and “checking out” from blogging for the labor day weekend to celebrate my birthday. Have a great labor day!