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Grand Cayman Opens Larger, State of the Art Cell Manufacturing Lab

I’m blogging from the Caymans again, having just started my two weeks here seeing patients at our licensed advanced cell culture site. This site just completed a huge clean room expansion and moved their lab into these more spacious digs. They now have a larger lab facility than our Colorado site. What Is Culture Expansion?…read more

Stem Cell Therapy Seminar King Still Hasn’t Cleaned Up Its Act

I have been blogging about stem cell therapy seminar king, Stem Cell Institute of America, and its issues for a while. The company has been offering dead amniotic “stem cell” injections at chiropractic offices and pawning them off as live stem cell procedures for years. These past few months, it appeared to try to come…read more

Top 5 Pieces of Advice I Give Residents Considering a Future in Interventional Orthopedics

We run a fellowship program here in Colorado. In just a few weeks, our two fellows from 2017–2018 will graduate and three new fellows will come into the practice. Because of this, I often get asked by resident physicians about what they should do to have the best career possible. This is my top 5…read more

Can Strong Back Muscles Lower the Risk of Knee Arthritis?

Our medical care system for orthopedics has a serious issue. It loves to chop people up into parts. You see the back guy for a spine problem, the foot and ankle guy, the shoulder doctor, and so on. The problem is that this isn’t consistent with the way we’re designed. We are one big connected…read more

Our Bones Aren’t Just a Framework; They’re Cell-Producing Machines

You have many stem cell types in your body, and today I’d like you to learn about one that lives in your bone marrow and why it lives there and not somewhere else. We’ll do that through a discussion of fish and frogs. Meet the HSC. What Are Hematopoietic Stem Cells? You might not realize…read more

Low Back BioDisc: The Kitchen Sink Approach

If you read this blog, you know that I tend to blog about what happens in daily practice. Hence, I just learned of a new spine-treatment approach from a patient who asked me to review his medical records to see if I could help his long-standing low back pain. In the records, it was called…read more

Can Exercise Offset the Risk of Too Much Screen Time?

We’ve all seen the headlines, sitting is the new smoking. In fact, the data is getting so convincing that sitting is “Risky Business.” However, a new study may make all of us who exercise regularly a little less paranoid. Let me explain. Meet My Standing Desk I now do my desk work at one of…read more

A Low Dose of Fish Oil Enough for Arthritis Relief and Heart Health?

Pharma companies hate supplements as they are really bad for business, especially ones that work. Fish oil has been lauded and maligned in study after study as it seems to be effective here but not there. Now a new study again finds that a low dose of fish oil may be enough to help with…read more