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A Real Pain in the Economy: IOM States Cost of Chronic Pain is Staggering

An Institute of Medicine study out this week estimates that more than 100 million Americans suffer from hard to treat chronic pain. As a medical practice that specializes in hard to treat pain problems, this number is staggering even to us. At least 116 million U.S. adults — or about four in 10 — suffer from…read more

Disc Stem Cell Success, More of the Story Unfolds

JS is a long-standing patient who we were managing with steroid epidurals for years. He had a large L5-S1 disc bulge and ultimately decided to undergo a Regenexx-C disc procedure. He did very well, reporting dramatically improved function, a decrease in his medications, as well as being able to sit longer and do thing like Jet Ski.…read more

More Horse Stem Cell Research

We have a reasonable number of patients who use stem cell therapies in their athletic horses and find us because they want the same therapies for themselves. Horse stem cell research has been very positive and the use of stem cells in horses has not been held up by excessive and unneeded regulation, so the field has expanded rapidly simply based…read more

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Dr. Centeno discusses Orthopedic Stem cell Therapies as part of NATA Conference

Dr. Centeno quoted recently by a New Orleans Times Picayune reporter after serving on a biologic therapies panel at the National Athletic Trainers Association conference. The story is below: Blood matter now the latest advance in treating sports injuries Published: Thursday, June 23, 2011, 6:49 AM     Updated: Thursday, June 23, 2011, 10:09 AM By Tammy Nunez, The…read more

Interesting Story on NPR about Stem Cells and Bartolo Colon

NPR produced an interesting piece on Science Friday on the Bartolo Colon stem cell treatment. The story covered how injecting bone marrow and fat stem cells into Bartolo’s elbow and shoulder helped him make a great come back and enabled him to pitch at an elite level again. Like many of the stories on this…read more

Our Stem Cell Research Slot Machine is Broken

Given the tremendous money, time, and resources spent on stem cell research, stem cell therapies should be all around us by now. They should already be available to physicians to treat patients with everything from heart disease, to stroke, to adult onset diabetes, to arthritis. However, just like the flying cars that seemed to populate…read more

How We Think about Treating Knee Arthritis with Stem cells

I examined a new knee patient this month who I thought would be helpful to illustrate how our clinic plans a patient’s knee treatment with stem cells. The patient is a middle aged Veterinarian who injured his right knee skiing 25 years ago and likely sustained a complete rupture of his ACL. He did well…read more