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Helping a Patient with an Ankle Deltoid Ligament Injury

Ankle stem cell therapy? PR is a 65 year old with a one year history of an ankle problem injury by stepping off a curb. At the time, he felt severe pain on the inside of his ankle and the MRI a few months later demonstrated a swollen tendon. After being in ankle pain for about a…read more

Adipose Stem Cells Cause Cancer? Or Man Bites Dog and Other Confounders…

Adipose stem cells cause cancer?  A recent news headline caught my attention, White adipose tissue used in lipotransfer can promote cancer progression!!! I was a little dubious, but certainly if they were placing purified mesenchymal stem cells directly on a tumor, something like this could happen. Certainly the implication of the article was that a…read more

Ankle Replacement Complications: How long do ankle replacements last?

The ultimate in ankle replacement complications is a new ankle that doesn’t last. Unlike hip and knee replacements, ankle replacements remain an evolving art and science that isn’t fully baked. For example, >98% metal on metal hips in one study lasted for more than 10 years. Compared to a hip replacement, how how long do…read more

Regenexx Caymans site Treats several more Professional Athletes and a Hollywood Star

We’re proud to announce that our advanced stem cell culture facility in the Cayman Islands has just begun treatment on two more professional athletes. An injured NFL player with a hip labral injury was just treated this week. This player had been offered a very invasive surgery with season ending downtime and he wanted to try to…read more

IRAPture: Interleukin Receptor Antagonist Therapy (a.k.a. Regenokine)

How effective is Regenokine? This re-branding of serum IRAP therapy for orthopedic problems has exploded into the media this past several months. To date the coverage has been nothing short of “IRAPture”. This has confused me as my experience with IRAP has been different. About 6 years ago, while we were developing the Regenexx procedure, I nurtured…read more

Round 2: Stem Cells and a Chronic Dural Leaker

In September I blogged on the remarkable results obtained by using the Regenexx-SCP stem cell procedure in a chronic dural leaker (spontaneous CSF leak). The patient has been unable to work for many years and has scoured the world for experts in this field. She had never gotten more than a few weeks of relief (which was defined…read more

Sneaky Killer: Just a Little too much Tylenol can be Deadly!

Tylenol side effects? Over the Thanksgiving week yet another news story hit about  the dangers of “over the counter” painkillers. We all think that since these common painkiller drugs have long since approved by the FDA that they must be very safe and have few side effects. This is a bad assumption. Take for example…read more

We literally wrote the book on the use of stem cells in Orthopedic injuries…

One of the things that separates us from other clinics is that we constantly strive to publish our work. Last month we published a book chapter on the use of stem cells in orthopedic injuries as part of a medical text by Springer. This week we published a second stem cell book chapter in a medical text…read more