The Interventional Orthobiologics Blog
Blog covering topics and research in interventional orthobiologics, interventional orthopedics, and orthopedic procedures.
Using Electromagnetic Fields to Enhance PRP Treatment May Be the Future
An electromagnetic field (EMF) uses both an electric and a magnetic field create either a static or moving (wave-like motion) force. While long-term exposure to strong EMFs has been linked to health risks, using low-frequency EMFs temporarily for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes in medicine has been shown to be beneficial in certain cases. …read more
Busting the Mythbusters
I’ve previously blogged on the Marrow Cellutions device that purports to be so good at drawing stem cells right out of your bone marrow that the bone marrow aspirate doesn’t need to be centrifuged to concentrate these cells. We were intrigued a few years ago by the claim, so we paid for several of the devices and tested…read more Avoid Ulnar Shortening Surgery: What’s Causing My Pain if It’s Not My Ulna Bone?
A few years back, I blogged on the barbaric procedure known as ulnar shortening. A patient who was about to pull the trigger on this surgery wrote me and wanted me to blog on what could be causing the pain he experiences. Hence, this morning’s blog. What Is Ulnar Variance or a Long Ulna? The…read more The Antibiotic Cipro Damages the Batteries in Your Cells
We’ve seen many patients over the last decade or two whose lives have been ruined by quinolone antibiotics, like Cipro. Why? We usually see them for severe chronic tendon problems. Turns out that, in addition, these antibiotics, like so many drugs, work by inhibiting an enzyme that bacteria and your cells need. Basically, a case…read more Why Are We Still Offering Meniscus Tear Patients Surgery? This Is Getting Nutty
If you read this blog, you have seen that we now have gobs of high-level evidence showing that surgery for the vast majority of meniscus tears in middle-aged patients is a fool’s errand. Despite this, the procedure is still the most common elective orthopedic surgery in the U.S. Now we have brand-new research that also weighs…read more Can a Stem Cell Treatment Regenerate My Degenerated Disc?
Way back in 2006, I’m pretty darn sure we were the first clinic on earth to inject mesenchymal stem cells into a human disc. Our hope was that what happened in rabbits, dogs, and rats would happen in people. That patients with severely degenerated discs would grow new ones. Regrettably, that didn’t happen. Now new…read more 