The Interventional Orthobiologics Blog
Blog covering topics and research in interventional orthobiologics, interventional orthopedics, and orthopedic procedures.
The World’s Newest Antibiotic is Already Inside Your Body!
The introduction of antibiotics was the seminal event in modern medical history. All of a sudden infant death rates plummeted, and people survived infections that just years earlier had been fatal. Also, the modern pharma industry was born. However, as you may have read, we’re running out of new antibiotics, as pharma companies focus on more profitable…read more
Reflecting on 2,000 Regenexx Blog Posts
Believe it or not, today the Regenexx blog reached a pretty incredible milestone, two thousand blog posts! Yikes! It’s difficult to believe that my first blog post was eight years ago. So I’ve decided to write a metablog, a behind the scenes look at how this all comes together. My First Blog Post On September 3, 2008,…read more Introducing The Spine Owner’s Manual: Our New Spine Book Launches!
When I first wrote Orthopedics 2.0 way back in 2012, it was a way to get down on paper all of the ideas that had been building in my head for years. Since then it’s been rewritten a few times and will soon be again so that it keeps pace with the incredible explosion in regenerative…read more Cheap Beats Expensive for Knee Arthritis Shoes!
There is no shortage of opinions out there about magic shoes that will help your knee arthritis. You can buy anything from cheap shoes to really expensive support shoes, or you can even buy hyper-expensive, custom knee arthritis shoes that are supposed to take the forces off sensitive parts of an arthritic knee. But how do…read more America Is the Most Overmedicated Nation on Earth!
Most of us have been prescribed and taken prescription drugs at one time or another: an antibiotic for a strep throat, a muscle relaxant or pain medication for a bad back, statins when those cholesterol numbers are high…Seeing patients every day, it seems like a large segment of the adult population is taking multiple prescription drugs…read more Cholesterol Drug Tendon Rupture: New Debate over Side Effects
Believe it or not, there’s a big fight happening in Britain right now that has nothing to do with what to do with Brexit but everything to do with cholesterol drugs. Yet another study shows again the horrendous side effects of these drugs known as statins. So let’s get into the British debate and the new research…read more 