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How NFL Players Are Recovering From Injuries Faster Than Ever Before

Regenexx has seen and treated many NFL athletes throughout the years, helping them to return to play with the world’s most advanced stem cell injections. For NFL players, one of their most pressing concerns after an injury is How soon can I play again? The traditional solution to NFL injuries is surgery followed by physical therapy,…read more

The Mid-Level Shuffle

This week I’ve had two physician assistants contact me looking for a job injecting Regenexx patients as they had been previously employed by stem cell clinics. I had to tell both of them that at Regenexx we don’t allow mid-levels to perform our procedures. So what’s a mid-level, and why could this be a problem…read more

More Evidence That Craniosacral Therapy Works?

I blogged a few months back on how we arrogant MDs needed to write an apology to our alternative medicine colleagues based on new discoveries that showed that craniosacral therapy works. Now another new study shows just how stupid we have been, finding new lymph connections in the brain that would further explain why craniosacral…read more

How to Avoid Surgery for Rotator Cuff Tears and Take Gold!

The MRI on the left above shows a complete rotator cuff tear that needs surgery. However, this martial-arts master knew that if he headed that direction, there was a significant chance that the shoulder he depended on to place opponents on the floor, as shown on the right, may never be the same. As a result, he…read more

More Evidence Low Back and Knee Pain Are Connected

Several months ago I blogged a study that showed that patients who got a knee replacement and who had low back pain were less likely to have a good outcome. The connection between low back and knee pain didn’t surprise us one bit, as we’ve known for about this relationship for years. Now yet another…read more

Amniotic Stem Cells for Sale Online?

On Friday I fielded a patient question and saw a Google ad for amniotic stem cells for sale that were both a demonstration of how the orthopedic stem cell field that I helped create has become a mess. In particular, the ad that popped up in my browser shows a very scary new trend, one…read more

How Itching and Nerves Are Curiously Related

Nerves work in mysterious ways. One of those is a phenomenon called “referred pain.”  This property of nerves is a topic that I’ve addressed on the blog—for example, that chopping off the knee isn’t going to help when the pain is coming from somewhere else. I’ve said many times that “where it hurts may not be where…read more

Orthopedic Academic Medical Centers Ignore Meniscectomy Research as Well

We’ve all been taught to believe that academic medical centers use the latest research to guide their treatment decisions. While that may be the case in other fields of medicine, it’s usually not the case in Orthopedics. This morning I’d like to demonstrate how one academic medical center, the Cleveland Clinic, has apparently been ignoring the…read more