The Interventional Orthobiologics Blog
Blog covering topics and research in interventional orthobiologics, interventional orthopedics, and orthopedic procedures.
Is Fake Sugar Really the Magic Answer? There Is No Free Lunch…
You may not know this, but the origin of the phrase “there is no free lunch” comes from the turn of the twentieth century when many bars were owned by breweries. They would offer the new immigrant poor a free lunch filled with salty stuff guaranteed to make them thirsty. Artificial sweeteners are a bit…read more
Transparency in Regenerative Medicine: Is Severe Degenerative Disc Disease a Rare Side Effect of BMC Injection?
Way back when, in 2005, I was the first physician on earth to inject bone marrow concentrate into a degenerated disc. Thirteen years later, there are at least a hundred clinics around the country who use this technique, and many report good results in the right type of patients. However, at Regenexx, we have always been…read more Does Weight Loss Help Knee Pain and Arthritis?
I often hear from patients that when they lose weight, their joints feel better. While this makes common sense, does losing weight also get rid of structural arthritis? Meaning, do the bone lesions and cartilage issues also resolve? A new study set out to answer that important question. Knee Arthritis and Obesity Knee arthritis involves…read more Alzheimer’s Disease Remedied in a Human Cell Study: Is a Cure on the Horizon?
Dementia has always been near and dear to my heart, since my Dad had a rare form called diffuse Lewy body. I saw my mother hang in there until the bitter end, and watching him deteriorate was awful. So when research gets published that shows that science could one day cure this problem, I pay…read more Learning What It Takes to Perform the Simplest Knee Injection
If you or a loved one wants to avoid getting scammed by a chiropractor, naturopath, acupuncturist, or a physician trying to reinvent his or her career by claiming to be an orthopedic stem cell expert, then learning how hard it can be just to perform the simplest knee injection will jump-start the education you need…read more Our Research Biobank: A Regenexx Clinical Research Update
I recently saw a video produced by a cord blood “scam cell” vendor that loves using blondes with big blue eyes in its ads. This was a tour around their lab facilities, which near as I can tell are all fictional. This same fiction continues at any number of fake stem cell “institutes,” which once…read more 