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Can Taking Motrin Stop Your Heart?

I’ve been blogging on the risks of NSAIDs for years. It’s amazing that every patient I tell about the cardiac risks of these drugs seems to be completely surprised, like telling someone a spaceship just parked itself above the city. Now a new study shows a new but related risk. Motrin and similar drugs significantly…read more

Oops I Did It Again…Find the Image Contest!

We’re offering $250 off any future procedure at the Centeno Schultz Clinic to anyone who can find another instance of the image from today’s blog!  As I was posting it I realized I liked the image so much I had used it before for a previous blog!  So I decided to make it fun and…read more

The Knee Owner’s Manual

Just a few months ago, I released The Spine Owner’s Manual. Today, in keeping with body-area-specific book updates to Orthopedics 2.0, I’m releasing one for the knee. The idea is the same. Since I could never dive deep into any one subject in Orthopedics 2.0, these more specific books allow that kind of depth. Here’s…read more

First Draft of Guidelines for the Ethical Practice of Orthobiologics

As I’ve blogged about many times before, we’re in the wild west of stem cells. I see stuff being advertised every day that makes no scientific sense, and, regrettably, most physicians working in this area don’t know what they don’t know. The physicians and companies who do take this field seriously have discussed in various…read more

The Spine Owner’s Manual Now on Kindle!

We released my new book, The Spine Owner’s Manual, to Kindle this week, and made it free for this first week as an incentive to read it. Why a Manual? The word “manual” is important as, like all manuals, it explains what something is, how it works, what can go wrong, and how to fix…read more

Interventional Orthopedics Isn’t Magic Pixie Dust—It’s Creative Disruption

Since I see my job as creating a new medical specialty that will transform orthopedics from a surgical to a percutaneous specialty (injection-based), you might imagine that my views on things will sometimes rile up orthopedic surgeons. Some of them see what’s coming down the pike, and a handful are even hard at work trying…read more

4 Year Knee Stem Cell Procedure Update: Our Amazing Patients

One of the great things about pioneering interventional orthopedics is the amazing people we meet and have the privilege to treat. Right off the bat, our patients are brave individuals who take the initiative to figure out what’s best for their health and ignore doctors who tell them  surgery is their only option! They are moms…read more

Imaging Your Brain on Chronic Pain…

“The pain is all in your head.” I remember being a newly minted doctor and hearing that statement in one of the first clinics where I worked out of residency training. It would be a common refrain I would hear time and time again over the next few years, as this idea was all the…read more