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Cultured Cell Confusion: Circulus in Demonstrando

Today begins the Annual Interventional Orthopedics Conference in Colorado, and up on the docket is a regulatory discussion. They’ll have the attorney who litigated the Regenerative Sciences case speak because this litigator is one of the world’s experts on the US regulation of stem cells. To that end, I’d like to follow-up on a recent…read more

The Regenexx Network Conference Begins Today

Every year for the last five we have brought together our network physicians in Colorado for our Annual Regenexx Network Conference. This is a great way for our doctors to learn the latest and greatest about everything Regenexx as well as trade experience and clinical pearls. This conference begins this morning. So I welcome all of our…read more

The Top 10 Questions to Ask Amniotic and Cord “Stem Cell” Vendors

An educated consumer is a good consumer, and that applies to doctors as well. I was recently asked by an academic colleague who is increasingly being accosted by amniotic- and cord-stem-cell vendors selling live “stem cells” to put together a list of questions to ask them. My list below has questions and answers, and at the…read more

Regenexx Licensed Disc Technology Gets FDA Approval for Phase 2 Trial for Stem Cell Back Treatment

Many years ago we were the first physicians on earth to enter the world of stem cell back treatment by injecting stem cells into low-back discs. We eventually learned what did and didn’t work and licensed our technology to a small publically traded company called BioRestorative Therapies (BRTX). That group spent about 18 months performing…read more

Teaching Interventional Orthopedics

These past few weeks, I’ve been diligently preparing for the 2017 Interventional Orthopedics Foundation conference here in Denver. Part of that conference is the world’s first course on how to precisely inject a knee ACL as part of the Perc-ACLR (percutaneous ACL repair) procedure we invented. The image above is from a posttest for that…read more

Cultured Expanded Stem Cells for Sale by the Baker’s Dozen?

This past week I blogged on the strange new trend of culture expanded stem cells being sold under the guise of what sounds like IRB or FDA approval but really isn’t when you peek under the covers. These ventures are selling cells by their quantity, a perverse incentive that reminds me of a real-estate debacle we…read more

Shoulder Stem Cell Injection? Ann’s Story

We’ve been performing a shoulder stem cell injection procedure for longer than anyone else in the U.S. Several years ago I met an avid CrossFit enthusiast named Ann who had a rotator cuff tear and was offered surgery. However, she decided to find out if there was a way to heal the damage without surgery. Now, three…read more

Regenexx Publishes Three More Scientific Papers…

Regenexx has published more clinical research on more orthopedic patients treated with stem cells than any other clinic system or academic medical center worldwide. We continue to work on various research papers and have submitted three for publication these past few months. We have also just had three new articles published, on top of the…read more