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NSAIDs vs. Exercise for Knee Arthritis

We are an NSAID society. I can’t tell you how many 35+-year-old patients I have who rely on these anti-inflammatory drugs to function. This is often due to chronic arthritic knee pain. However, new research suggests that these patients may be better off exercising and ditching the Motrin. A Review of Exercise for Knee Arthritis…read more

Website Bling vs. Clinical Reality… NSI Stem Cell

This past weekend my wife and I went to see a movie, and the above ad was in the lobby. It took us a second, but as soon as we recognized the message as a “bull in a china shop,” we both knew that this was a blog post in the making. This morning I’d…read more

Is Cancer’s Big Sugar Addiction a Cause or an Effect?

There’s been quite a bit of attention lately on the negative health effects of sugar. I tend to personally focus more on weight gain and problems that come with it, but there’s another dimension to our sugar-filled American diet that’s even worse. Increased cancer rates have also been tied to excessive sugar consumption. So which…read more

The Top Orthopedic/MSK Stem Cell Conferences

I recently came across a list of the top 10 stem cell conferences online. I was a bit surprised, as the list wasn’t put together by a physician expert in the space, so I thought it a good idea to create another list that’s more factual and more focused on orthopedic, pain management, and sports…read more

More Cord Product Craziness: More CoreCyte and First StemShot Review

As I often say, sometimes you just can’t make this stuff up about the Wild West of stem cells. While we’ve had the amniotic fake stem cell therapies being pushed by companies, sales reps, and clinics, the newest craze is umbilical-cord-tissue treatments claiming live stem cells. These are as much fake “stem cell” therapies as…read more

My Recent Lecture on Cleaning Up the Stem Cell Wild West

I live in a house that was built when Boulder, Colorado, was the Wild West. In fact, there is an oral history online from the daughter of Dr. William Duane (one of the house’s original occupants and later the father of nuclear medicine) about just how wild it was. She recants that when Duane first moved…read more

Regenerative Medicine Magazine: How to Fabricate Experts Using Marketing

I recently heard a “regenerative medicine” marketing expert (previously a real estate agent) put the hard sell on a room of doctors. While he had some helpful advice for physicians to market their practices, I felt really uncomfortable with the whole thing. A bit like I needed a bath after watching it for 30 minutes. At the…read more

My MedRebels Conference Talk Today

I’m lecturing this morning at the MedRebels conference in Austin, Texas. This is my talk, which focuses on why interventional orthopedics will be the next interventional cardiology. The amazing thing is that we’re on the verge of a new medical specialty that’s about to rewrite half a century of how best to treat orthopedic injuries. For…read more