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Oral Steroids and the Tragedy of Osteonecrosis/Avascular Necrosis

One of the tragic medical conditions we’ve seen this past 6 years while being involved in orthopedic stem cell work is young healthy patients that develop osteonecrosis (ON also known as avascular necrosis) of the hip after taking oral steroids. As an example, we just reviewed stem cell procedure candidacy for a young man who…read more

Introducing A. Rahman Ford: Fighting for His Life and Yours

I met Mr. Ford about a year ago via e-mail. Rahman is an attorney and PhD candidate in political science at Penn. He has a rare form of acquired neuropathy which causes severe muscle wasting (his picture is above). Like many no option patients, he’s spent the last few years very attuned to the developments in stem…read more

Helping our Military Guys with “Runner’s Knee” Go the Distance

A doctor discusses how a patient with knee cap chondromalacia (runner's knee) got back to running marathons by having his own stem cells injected to avoid the need for much more invasive lateral release surgery.

Another Stem Cell Knee Arthritis Success in an Avid Skier

PM is 55 year old family physician from Canada and a very avid Canadian skier. When he was seen by our clinic in April of 2010, he had moderate loss of cartilage under his knee caps from too many years of skiing the bumps. He also had ongoing nerve issues in his low back as…read more

The Hip Bone is Connected to the Knee Bone: Patellofemoral Pain in Running

A doctor discusses why weakness in your butt muscles may be causing that pain in the front of the knee when you run.

Great Piece by The Cell Therapy Foundation on Stem Cells for Athritis

I think this piece by Dick VanDyke says it all, no additional commentary needed. Give generously to The Cell Therapy Foundation:Here’s a link where you can donate.

Successful Treatment of Another Meniscus Tear with Stem cells

DG is a 41 year old male with a 3 year history of knee pain who injured his medial meniscus while roller blading in Chicago. He had no surgery and was limping when he was first seen at our clinic. On exam he had instability of the ACL ligament (his main stabilizing ligament in the knee…read more

Hand Stem Cells…and Cars??

People that know me know that I am both a car enthusiast and a bit of a pragmatist…. I just got finished reading a blog post about a man taking his car into a mechanic because the steering had become difficult. The mechanic looked at the car and concluded that the entire steering mechanism (involving…read more