The Interventional Orthobiologics Blog
Blog covering topics and research in interventional orthobiologics, interventional orthopedics, and orthopedic procedures.
Gastrocnemius Recession Review: Should You Get This Invasive Surgery?
In this article: Overview PRP research on Achilles tendinopathy PRP injection for heel pain Research on gastrocnemius recession I have a list of surgeries that I classify as something like “They did what to you?” One of those is called gastrocnemius recession, a procedure that is increasingly being used to treat heel pain. Recently, a…read more
This Is SO Wrong: Neck Fusion Gone Bad
I have had about enough of my spine-surgery colleagues who perform a single fusion that doesn’t work and then keep digging the proverbial hole deeper and deeper by performing more fusions. Case in point this morning is a poor middle-aged woman with her whole neck fused! Now she’s miserable and has complications related to the…read more More Bad NSAID News: Male Infertility
NSAIDs are the side-effect laden drugs that America loves. The average thirty- to fifty-something soon realizes that if he or she pops a few Motrin, it’s possible to exercise with less pain, so the addition begins. Before long, the patient notices that he or she can’t function without the drugs. Despite this widespread use, NSAID…read more Mind Reading AI Is Here…
You may not realize it, but a revolution in computing is under way that’s a far bigger deal than the printing press and the Internet put together. Why? Computers have always been very limited in how they could understand and interact with the real physical world. These limitations come from how they have always worked,…read more New Florida State Senate Bill Would Be a First Step to Fix an Out of Control Stem Cell Space
If you follow this blog, you know that the stem cell wild west is exploding now with a new phenomenon that has unshackled the good parts of stem cell technology from reality. We now have chiropractic clinics putting on aggressive sales seminars claiming to regrow new knees in patients with severe arthritis using dead amniotic stem cells.…read more New Research Says Hitting the Workouts Hard Now Can Repair Your Heart
Can a simple aerobic exercise program improve your heart health even after a lifetime of damage due to not exercising? That’s what the most recent research set to find out. The results of this most recent study blew me away. How Blood Circulates Through the Heart It seems a chronically sedentary lifestyle can weaken the…read more 