The Interventional Orthobiologics Blog
Blog covering topics and research in interventional orthobiologics, interventional orthopedics, and orthopedic procedures.
Late Night Eating May Be Causing More Than Just Weight Gain
We’ve all experienced those nighttime snack cravings. Perhaps for you it’s a regular habit and every night is a cheese and crackers night with Jimmy Fallon, or maybe it’s a cleverly marketed 30-second cereal commercial that ramps up that late craving, sending you to your kitchen for a bowl of me Lucky Charms. Whether it’s…read more
Confounding and the Biopsychosocial Model
As I blogged a few days ago, the biopsychosocialists are back. We dealt with these theories in pain management and orthopedic injuries a decade or more ago, but advances in pain research made these theories go away or at least fade into the background. Now, they have again surfaced in a new physical therapy viral…read more My TOBI Presentation on Perc-ACLR
Today, at the TOBI conference in Las Vegas, I presented on percutaneous anterior cruciate ligament repair (Perc-ACLR). This post is an excerpt of that presentation. To view the full Power Point presentation, please watch the video above. ACL reconstruction (ACLR-the surgery) is a surgical procedure to replace the ACL with a tendon graft. It’s use…read more The Final Marrow Cellutions Review
This past winter, while I was at the Interventional Orthopedics Foundation (IOF) conference, a sales rep for the Marrow Cellutions device approached me. The device had been on our radar for years, but a veterinarian who presented at the conference thought highly of it, so I was intrigued again. That began an ordeal of testing, and now…read more The Tainted History of Low Fat Diets…
We all grew up with the butter and bacon demon that would kill us all. What if all of that was based on really flawed science and there was no research that showed that eating strict Vegan was any better than downing gallons of bacon grease? Now, decades-old research has been rediscovered showing that the…read more FloGraft Review: Does This Product Contain Live Stem Cells?
Below is a product handout from FloGraft, one of the many amniotic products being used by physicians who claim to be injecting live amniotic stem cells. It makes many claims about this product, including the suggestion that it has live stem cells. However, testing by a third-party nonprofit showed nothing living, let alone stem cells.…read more 