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Trouble Overeating? Control Your Appetite with Walnuts

I’ve always had a thing for walnuts, but they would only ever seem to show up around the holidays. Unlike other nuts that are ubiquitous these days, walnuts seem to be rarer. As an example, you tend to only find them in some grocery stores on the cake mix aisle, as a baking supply. However, are…read more

PNE Review II: Mentally “Buffing” Chronic Pain Patients

I’ve blogged before about a new and disturbing trend in physical therapy called pain neuroscience education, or PNE. While I’ve tried to just ignore the daily and copious bovine excrement blowing up my Twitter feed regarding PNE, it’s hard to ignore where all of this came from and is headed. You see, if you have…read more

Binge-Watchers Beware! Mobility May Decline as You Age

We’ve all heard the old adage, “use it or lose it.” This seems to get truer as we age, so it would make sense that those of us who sit in front of the TV or sit and binge-watch may have more trouble as we age. Now a new research study suggests this effect could…read more

Did Ancient Man Have Knee Arthritis?

The number of people with knee arthritis has exploded since I was a kid. One of the ways we can find out if this is related to our modern, industrialized societies is by looking at the bones of our ancestors. Even though they had far more wear and tear because being active was needed to…read more

We Invented Orthopedic Stem Cell Injections: An 8-Year Hip Follow-up

We invented orthopedic stem cell injections for arthritis. That’s a true statement, as while there were one or two physicians using bone marrow concentrate as part of specific surgeries before we began using stem cells, there was nobody injecting stem cells to treat arthritis. I was reminded of that this week when a patient who…read more

How to Avoid Discography Side Effects: Biologic Discography

Frankly, until we became the first in the world to inject stem cells into discs, discography never made much sense to me. I would tell patients, “I’m going to poke a hole in your disc to see if there’s a hole in your disc.” However, when we began to see that platelet rich plasma and…read more

A Big Fat Blow for the Stem Cell Literature: Major Paper Withdrawn

This past year, I was actually excited to add fat stem cells to my big annual review of the orthopedic stem cell literature. While a few small papers had been published, a big part of that literature was a huge data set by Michalek out of Eastern Europe, which purported to show that fat stem…read more

Should You Get a Disc Stem Cell Injection? It Depends…

If you read this blog, you know that we sometimes use stem cells to treat low-back discs, but only in select patients. Being the first clinic on earth to perform disc stem cell injections, we’ve learned that they are not a panacea and they don’t work in every type of disc disease. However, when you…read more