The Interventional Orthobiologics Blog
Blog covering topics and research in interventional orthobiologics, interventional orthopedics, and orthopedic procedures.
Why You Can’t Inject a Torn Knee ACL with Ultrasound
When we first began injecting ACL tears with stem cells many years ago, we tried quite a few techniques. At first, it was a very difficult injection that wasn’t reliable. However, after some anatomy review and testing several methods, we finally settled on a procedure that produced reliable results and then began teaching that through…read more
Imaging Your Brain on Chronic Pain…
“The pain is all in your head.” I remember being a newly minted doctor and hearing that statement in one of the first clinics where I worked out of residency training. It would be a common refrain I would hear time and time again over the next few years, as this idea was all the…read more Liveyon Review: Does Its Regenerative Medicine Product Contain Live Stem Cells?
Video: Liveyon, according to its website, bills itself as “the exclusive worldwide distributor of a regenerative medicine product that is derived from umbilical cord. This product contains cells, stem cells and growth factors which may serve as a therapy for various degenerative diseases/disorders.” Today, I’m going to provide a review of a white paper the…read more Your Knee Pain Is Most Likely Due to Knee Arthritis Nerve Pain
>>Skip ahead in the article: knee arthritis nerve pain Modern orthopedics is all about structure. However, there’s a big problem with this focus. Recent research shows that this model is seriously flawed. For example, it’s an urban myth that cartilage loss in the knee is associated with knee pain, and most orthopedic surgeons today replace…read more Multifidus Back Pain: Why Isn’t Your Doctor Talking About It?
Many people have multifidus back pain, but most have never been diagnosed with it. In fact, you’ve likely never even heard of multifidus back pain because you doctor probably has never talked about it. If he or she isn’t looking at your multifidus when looking for the cause of back pain, he or she is…read more How AI Will Change Medicine by Bypassing Human Brains
The human brain has been moving medical science forward for centuries, but now that we have fully entered an age of rapid advances in machine learning, the human brain may be beginning to hold us back. As a result, we are about to embark on the biggest change in the scientific method since Aristotle. I’m…read more 