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Helping a Runner Run with Stem Cells

Helping a runner with knee stem cells…  JC is an active 66 year old runner who was seen by us at the end of May with a four year history of knee pain. He had an arthroscopic debridement in 2007 with a partial menisectomy (part of the meniscus removed) which helped for awhile, but the…read more

Turning Body Parts into Drugs: Geron ceases Stem Cell Approval citing Regulatory Costs

Wow, what a bombshell this morning. Geron was one of the big dogs in the stem cell business world, most recently in the news for the first FDA approved spinal cord injury study. Yet the company just pulled all funding out of pursuing U.S. FDA approval for stem cells citing the excessive costs of the…read more

Low Vitamin D Levels not Associated with Arthritis

Vitamin D arthritis pain? Vitamin D is an important factor needed to grow strong bones. Much attention has been paid to Vitamin D lately as it’s clear that many of us living in the western world are deficient. Since this vitamin helps to grow bones, many have wondered if supplementing it might reduce painful arthritis or if…read more

Another Stem Cell Study in Orthopedic Injuries published by our Clinic

We’re one of the only clinics in the United States offering stem cell therapies that has a research department and uses a registry to track patients and publish the results of our patients. To that end, we just published another study as a safety update for Regenexx-C stem cell therapy as well as knee outcome data for severe knee…read more

Frightening Increase in Osteonecrosis in Patients taking Oral Steroids

Osteonecrosis Steroids Connection?  A study just published shows shocking amounts of increase in osteonecrosis in patients treated with oral steroids. Osteonecrosis or avascular necrosis (AVN) literally means “bone death”. This disease usually involves the hip and can mean a rapid collapse of the structure of the femur bone which causes severe arthritis. We’ve known for…read more

Interesting NPR Story on the Vatican Stem Cell Conference

NPR has produced an interesting piece on the genesis of the Vatican stem cell conference. It details how the head of the Vatican Pontifical Council on Science and Culture wanted to support adult stem cell science and came up with the idea for a scientific conference sponsored by the church. Dr. Centeno will be leaving this Saturday…read more

Is your Abnormal Shoulder MRI Really Normal?

Is your abnormal shoulder MRI really normal?  I’ve blogged before on a very scary trend that continues despite the evidence-many things seen on MRI and blamed for the cause of the patient’s pain that lead to invasive surgery are really normal findings. This has shown to be the case with knee MRIs. For years we doctors…read more

Stem Cells: Guardians of Inflammation

Very interesting research article out this week that posits that mensenchymal stem cells (MSCs-the type used by the Regenexx family of procedures) are the body’s “Guardians” of inflammation. In modern medicine we have traditionally only thought of inflammation as bad and anti-inflammatories (which wipe out inflammation) as good. This is very over-simplified. As an example,…read more