The Interventional Orthobiologics Blog
Blog covering topics and research in interventional orthobiologics, interventional orthopedics, and orthopedic procedures.
Is Aspirin Use Sabotaging Your PRP Treatment?
We’ve all been told for many years that we need to take an aspirin a day to help prevent heart attacks. Hence, there are many people that take this drug every day. However, given that aspirin is a blood thinner, does it impact the way your platelets work? If so, does that change the way…read more
Growth Factor Content of Amniotic and Umbilical Cord Products
We have been testing various umbilical cord and amniotic products for live stem cells, but we also sent these samples for independent growth factor analysis and compared those metrics to a weak platelet mixture. What did we find? Read on… Do Umbilical Cord Products Have Live Stem Cells? We’ve tested many birth-tissue products derived from…read more Professional Snowboarder Taylor Gold Reveals His Regenexx Stem Cell Treatment
We have treated many pro and college athletes through the years, but often they don’t want to talk about their treatment. Taylor Gold is an Olympic snowboarder who has been dogged by injuries and ineffective surgeries for years. This week he reported to his local newspaper his very personal story of recovery using the advanced…read more Naturopaths and Regenerative Medicine: The Utah Example
One of the more interesting phenomena in the wild west of regenerative medicine is the fact that there are many alternative-health practitioners in this space. Why? There is a razor-thin argument that their practice acts allow the injection of “natural” substances. Utah has one of the more bizarre practice acts out there which when combined…read more Do I Need Neck Surgery? Probably Not…
A common question I hear day in and day out is, “Do I need neck surgery?” As a physician, my answer to that question has steadily changed over the years. A few years ago, when I saw nerves on the patient’s neck MRI that were severely compressed, my answer was always, “Yes.” However, now the…read more Umbilical Cord Stem Cell Review: StemVive from Utah Cord Bank
We’ve been testing amniotic and umbilical cord products since 2015. In that time we have tested all types currently on the market, and despite the wild claims of birth tissue vendors and physicians that these products contain many live and functional mesenchymal stem cells, they have all had none. Today we add a Wharton’s jelly product…read more 