The Interventional Orthobiologics Blog
Blog covering topics and research in interventional orthobiologics, interventional orthopedics, and orthopedic procedures.
A Master Triathlete Gets His Running Mojo Back with Regenexx!
Can a stem cell treatment for knees get a Master Triathlete back to running at peak levels? Guy is a successful and award-winning businessman and four-time USA Triathlon All-American athlete. He’s competed in the 70.3 IRONMAN World Championship, finished 10 IRONMANS, 40 half-IRONMANS, and over 100 triathlons. Exercise has always been a major source of…read more
Is Arthritis the Newest Heart Attack Warning Sign?
We’ve all been taught to monitor our cholesterol as a cardiac warning sign. In fact, this is a pretty weak predictor of heart attack risk. But did you know that knee or hip arthritis may well be a cardiac warning sign all by itself? At least that’s what a new study on the association between…read more Centeno-Schultz Clinic Doctors—John Pitts, MD: Practicing What He Preaches
Being a healthy person is about living a healthy lifestyle on a day-to-day basis, and Dr. Pitts not only teaches and encourages this concept, he practices what he preaches. So what exactly does he preach? The implementation of lifestyle changes to improve your overall quality of life through avenues such as physical activity, diet, posture…read more My IOF 2017 Talk on Stem Cells, Knee Microenvironment, and Machine Learning
This is the talk I gave this week at the 2017 Interventional Orthopedics Foundation (IOF) Conference in Denver. Regrettably, the slides that made it into the computer were an old slide set with a few blanks. There’s nothing like being on the podium and seeing that the slides they have loaded are the wrong ones!…read more Cultured Cell Confusion: Circulus in Demonstrando
Today begins the Annual Interventional Orthopedics Conference in Colorado, and up on the docket is a regulatory discussion. They’ll have the attorney who litigated the Regenerative Sciences case speak because this litigator is one of the world’s experts on the US regulation of stem cells. To that end, I’d like to follow-up on a recent…read more The Top 10 Questions to Ask Amniotic and Cord “Stem Cell” Vendors
An educated consumer is a good consumer, and that applies to doctors as well. I was recently asked by an academic colleague who is increasingly being accosted by amniotic- and cord-stem-cell vendors selling live “stem cells” to put together a list of questions to ask them. My list below has questions and answers, and at the…read more 