The Interventional Orthobiologics Blog
Blog covering topics and research in interventional orthobiologics, interventional orthopedics, and orthopedic procedures.
Keeping Up with the Stem Cell Hype Machine Is a Full-Time Job
Another day, another stem cell clinic pops up! While I really can’t keep up with it all, I do like to take one of the more ridiculous ones every week or two and expose the insanity. Usually these clinics are created by physicians who barely know what they don’t know. Case in point is one…read more
Healthy Living Now Will Pay Off As You Age
Let’s face it, we all want to be that guy or gal who’s still kicking it at 70, 80, or older. But how do you get there? Turns out that taking care of yourself now matters. Healthy Living and Aging It certainly makes sense that how we live and how we take care of our…read more Training the Best to Be Even Better!
Yesterday, we had the Interventional Orthopedics Foundation (IOF) “Supercourse” at the clinic in Colorado. This is a special course for highly trained physicians who already know all of the basics and have been performing precise regenerative-medicine procedures for some time. The goal is to allow them to “cross the t’s and dot the i’s” of their education…read more If You Absolutely need a Knee Replacement Acupuncture May Help Reduce Narcotic Use
Knee replacement is often billed as a sure thing treatment for knee arthritis. However, what’s interesting is that numerous studies have found an alarmingly high number of patients who are still on narcotics long after the procedure. How can you reduce this risk if you really need a knee replacement? It may be as simple…read more PNE: The Chronic Pain Denier Movement
The Internet and social media have changed things. One of those is how easy it is for a concept to “go viral,” meaning to expand quickly through social media. One of those concepts in pain medicine that is also cashing in on the lucrative physical therapy education market is called pain neuroscience education, or PNE…read more Knee Stem Cell Reviews: Meet Dion and Rocky
As a doctor, there are patients you treat who just walk out the door and you never hear back. The good news is that we have a registry, so if they respond to the multiple pings for outcome data, that information will get recorded. But having it live in a database isn’t, of course, as interesting…read more 