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Fat Stem Cells Knee Injections: Getting Fat Stem Cells to Repair Cartilage is Still a Problem

As I have blogged many times, adipose (fat) stem cells don’t like to become cartilage, and fat stem cells knee injections are therefore not very effective.  All stem cells can become other tissue or orchestrate it’s repair. While bone marrow stem cells just need a little nudge to head in the direction of cartilage repair,…read more

We’re Serious about Regenexx Data Collection: Answer your Regenexx Questionnaires and Win an iPad!

We’re serious about Regenexx data collection for our orthopedic stem cell patients. Just using our automated registry to send e-mails and then following up with phone calls allows us to collect most of the data from most of the patients. We collect information at set time points-3, 6, 12 months and then annually on everything from complications…read more

Update on a Stem Cell Treatment for Severe Traumatic Ankle Arthritis

CB was a 39 year old woman seen last summer with a three year history of ankle pain that was getting worse. When her pain was at it’s worst, it was a 7/10. This all began in 2008 when she was in a potentially catastrophic car crash where she sustained a tib-fib fracture that required…read more

Carticel Cultured Cartilage Cell Surgery vs. Regenexx-C Stem cell Research

I’m kind of on a roll with infographics lately. In this one I compare the amount of research that led to the FDA approval of Genzyme Carticel versus the amount that currently exists for Regenexx-C, so Carticel research vs. Regneexx-C research.  Carticel is an FDA approved product where surgically harvested cartilage samples are taken from…read more

The Missing Link in Healthcare: Price

The missing link in healthcare: price….. Bill Frezza is an entrepreneur who is a fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and who writes for an on-line magazine, BioIT World. The bioinformatics world these days is all about a push towards personalized medicine. However, the concept that medical care might be personalized the same way that your daily news and internet buying options…read more

New Regenexx-C Stem Cell Procedure Infographic

We have been producing a series of infographics for patients so they can get a good feel for everything from the patient outcomes to lab data. This most recent one, Regenexx-C Stem Cell Procedure Infographic,  is about stem cell procedure testing and compares the lab release criteria of Regenexx-C to the FDA approval document listed for Genzyme…read more

An Ankle that Didn’t Respond Permanently

LB was a 51 year old woman and avid walker when she was first evaluated by us in August of 2010. At that point she was walking with a limp due to a three year history of ankle pain and using a hiking pole to get by. Her ankle was severely degenerated especially in the sub-talar joint…read more

Was Bartolo Colon’s Pitching Speed Impacted by his Stem Cell Therapy or his Steroid Use?

Last spring I blogged on Bartolo Colon’s stem cell therapy. What was fascinating was that after a stem cell treatment performed by a Florida physician, he seemed to be pitching faster. After treating numerous professional athletes with stem cells, this made sense to us. However, yesterday came the revelation that his pitching may have been impacted by something equally…read more