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Squatting to Help Knee Pain: Stop Frying Your Kneecap

I love seeing practical applications of biomechanics that can help patients. For example, yesterday afternoon I worked out at a hotel gym in Orlando. The spin bike had traditional clip-in pedals, which I haven’t used in more than a year. As I felt my weight shift to my quads and kneecap, I knew I had…read more

Can You Reduce Fibromyalgia Pain by Getting More Sleep

Many of the patients I see every day would meet the definition of having a pain condition called fibromyalgia. While we’ve been very successful in treating these issues using advanced regenerative medicine techniques, my patients always ask if there’s anything more they can do themselves. Based on recent research, a simple solution may be to…read more

Helping You Understand All the Confusing Things You’ve Heard About Stem Cells

It’s a mess out there. We have more providers who don’t know what they don’t know than we have providers who know what they’re talking about. As a world expert in regenerative medicine, today I’d like to help you understand all of the confusing things you’ve heard about stem cells. In 2005, myself and my partner,…read more

FTC Nails Magic Amniotic Cure All Stem Cell Clinic: The Beginning of the End for Amniotic and Cord Vendors?

It was just a matter of time until the magic amniotic stem cell crowd began to be taken down by government officials. Many thought it would be the FDA, but we also thought that at some point the FTC may throw its hat into the ring. That’s exactly what happened this week when the government…read more

Pardon Our Dust…

These past few days you may have noticed that we’re transitioning to a new website format. Given that the website is huge and has more than 3,000 pages, this has been a tough few days as we get the new website into shape. It’s also interrupted my usual blogging. Our orthopedic stem cell website first began in…read more

Are You Too Old for Your Stem Cells to Help Cartilage Repair?

One of the big pushes behind fake stem cell therapies with dead amniotic and cord blood tissue is that they contain millions of young stem cells. While that’s a scam, can you be too old for real bone marrow stem cells to help cartilage repair? Let’s first take a look at the recent research. What…read more

Is Back Pain Genetic?

Can we use a genetic test to see who will get back pain? If we do, can we prevent it? As early 21st-century medicine progresses, we will be confronted with these dilemmas. Has the first foray into this next step in diagnosis arrived? Our Genes Tell Our Past, Present, and Future Our genetic make-up can…read more

Dr. Centeno Speaking Today at Canadian Think Tank

Today I’m up north, speaking in front of Alberta government health officials and regulators about how interventional orthopedics will change the landscape of orthopedic care. This conference is a product of the LPNs in Alberta who have found that by getting decision-makers in the room and exposing them to new technologies, they can drive provincial…read more