The Interventional Orthobiologics Blog

My Presentation on NFL Stem Cell Therapy to Team Physicians

I was honored to be invited to speak in front of 300-400 team doctors at the NFL Physician’s Society Scientific Session at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis on Feb 25th. The talk on NFL stem cell therapy was well received and I think educational for these doctors, as they’re getting bombarded by requests from their players…read more

Are Hip Replacement Complications from M.O.M Hip Implants a Roll of the Dice?

We’ve known for a while that “minimally invasive” metal-on-metal hip implants are a gamble! They raise the levels of metal in the blood and cause local genetic instability in the cells, and we see adverse reactions, implant revisions, and even pseudotumors in patients who have had metal-on-metal hip implants. About the only thing you can…read more

Dr. Centeno Speaking at the NFL Physicians Society This Evening

Regenexx has seen and treated many NFL athletes throughout the years, helping them to return to play with the world’s most advanced stem cell injections. So I’m honored to be an invited speaker this evening at the NFL Physicians Society Scientific Session, which will be held in conjunction with the 2016 NFL Scouting Combine. I’ll be…read more

Does Eating Fish Really Increase Your Mercury Levels?

One thing everyone seems to agree on is that eating fish is healthy, but many also say that because of current fish mercury levels, eating fish can increase the mercury levels in your own body and that this can cause many harmful health problems. Eat fish, just don’t eat too much—that’s the plug. There are infographics online…read more

Hip Surgery Results: Little Evidence the Procedure Works

You would think that with the explosion of hip arthroscopy surgeries in the United States and worldwide that we would have excellent research supporting that the procedure is very successful for patients with hip impingement. You would, of course, be wrong. Despite the surgical melee, we don’t have a single high-quality study of excellent hip…read more

ACL Surgery Choices: A Tale of Two Grafts

When faced with ACL surgery choices, there are two types of common ACL grafts available, but is there a difference? When an ACL is reconstructed using a tendon from another human, this is called an allograft. When the ACL is reconstructed using a tendon from your own body, this is called an autograft. But the differences…read more