The Interventional Orthobiologics Blog
Blog covering topics and research in interventional orthobiologics, interventional orthopedics, and orthopedic procedures.
Acupuncturists and Naturopaths and Chiropractors…Oh My!
Becoming an MD or DO physician is hard. Four years of college where you bust your butt to make good enough grades to get into medical school. Four years of medical school where you work hard to get your choice of residency. Then another four years (or more) of residency and fellowship training. By the time…read more
My Recent Lecture on Cleaning Up the Stem Cell Wild West
I live in a house that was built when Boulder, Colorado, was the Wild West. In fact, there is an oral history online from the daughter of Dr. William Duane (one of the house’s original occupants and later the father of nuclear medicine) about just how wild it was. She recants that when Duane first moved…read more What We Can Learn from a Dead Walking Cat with No Brain
It’s Halloween time, which is a big deal in my house. My wife loves to decorate heavily, and we all get into it as we live in a neighborhood that gets hundreds of kids an hour. At a recent conference, I saw this great video of an old dead-cat experiment, and I thought it was…read more Is Our Disc Fetish Hurting Regenerative Spine Care?
Modern spine care has a disc fetish. While the spine has many parts, surgeons and interventional-pain physicians seem to look at the disc as the cause of pain and trouble more than anywhere else. As a result, it’s become the defacto place to inject orthobiologics, like PRP and stem cells. However, does this view hurt patients?…read more My Top 7 Tips for Weight Lifting with Back and Neck Pain
I often get asked by back- and neck-pain patients how they should be working out at the gym or with a personal trainer. While there are no published and tested guidelines, what follows is what I have learned through years of trial and error as someone who has both issues and who likes working out.…read more Lipogems Review: Is This a Fat Stem Cell Procedure?
Lipogems is a fat-processing kit that has gained some popularity the past few years. Near as I can tell, it produces a beautifully cleaned fat graft that is finely chopped. However, many physicians have begun to call this a stem cell procedure. Is that true? What Is Lipogems? Lipogems is a device used to process a…read more 