The Interventional Orthobiologics Blog
Blog covering topics and research in interventional orthobiologics, interventional orthopedics, and orthopedic procedures.
Why Can’t I Lift My Arms Overhead?
On this page: Muscles and ligaments involved in neck instability Irritated neck nerves A patient story I love when patients walk in and I can easily show them how their body works. This past week, I was able to do that with a patient who couldn’t lift his arms over his head. In seconds, I…read more
Can Strong Back Muscles Lower the Risk of Knee Arthritis?
Our medical care system for orthopedics has a serious issue. It loves to chop people up into parts. You see the back guy for a spine problem, the foot and ankle guy, the shoulder doctor, and so on. The problem is that this isn’t consistent with the way we’re designed. We are one big connected…read more
The 7 Signs That a Stem Cell Clinic Is Not a Center of Excellence
I’ve blogged extensively on the outright fraud going on with chiropractic and alternative-health clinics claiming stem cell miracles, like regrown bone-on-bone knees, while having nurses inject dead amniotic or cord-blood tissues. This morning, I’d like to look at the next step down. These are clinics that likely have an MD on board but aren’t doing their best…read more Biceps Tenodesis Side Effects: They Did What to You?
I have a running list that I keep of the dumbest surgeries. One of my criteria to make the list is when I first hear about the procedure from a patient I am shocked enough to say out loud, “They did what to you?” While I’ve known about the concept of tenodesis for many years,…read more A2M Epidural and Amniotic “Stem Cells”: When Medicine Becomes Used Car Sales
I’ve spent many years investigating what works and doesn’t work with regard to spinal orthobiologics, like platelets and stem cells. At this point, we’ve treated tens of thousands of patients with back or neck pain with one or the other technology and have published a few papers in the peer-reviewed literature. Hence, when I see…read more Can You Make the Orthobiologics Cut?
Providing orthobiologics is still the wild west. At Regenexx, we approach that differently. Today’s blog is focused more on a challenge to medical providers. Let’s dive in. The Orthobiologics Wild West If you’re a doctor practicing orthobiologics or a patient, you have a serious problem. To illustrate that, let me use a Starbucks analogy. We…read more
