The Interventional Orthobiologics Blog
Blog covering topics and research in interventional orthobiologics, interventional orthopedics, and orthopedic procedures.
How Popular is Regenexx Research?
Unlike the vast majority of clinics offering patients stem cell treatments, Regenexx publishes research on what it does. I get e-mails from a research collating service that I usually ignore, but a few days ago I decided to check out the stats on the research we’ve published about Regenexx procedures. As you can see above,…read more
Cyplexinol Review 2: More of the BMP Shuffle…
Last year I was contacted by a marketing agent on Twitter about the “research” supporting a new supplement called Cyplexinol. When I dug into this supplement, what I found was very disturbing. Yesterday a physician who uses stem cells sent me a copy of the company’s most recent e-mail ad campaign which looks as factually…read more
Conventional Polyethylene Hips Toxic to Stem Cells?
From the 1970s through today doctors began to put all sorts of stuff in our bodies – pacemakers, valves, stents, artificial joints, etc… These were all hailed as modern medical miracles as they appeared on the scene, but what if the stuff they were made of was really toxic? We’ve known for awhile that minimally invasive…read more
Torn Disc Surgery Alternatives: Can You Heal Disc Tears?
Torn discs can be painful, but are often missed as a cause of pain, usually lumped with garden variety degenerative disc disease. Some of the patients with these tears that have chronic pain end up with surgical fusions. However, are there torn disc surgery alternatives? DA is a good example of how many different injection based…read more
Fat vs Bone Marrow Stem Cell Video
This is part of a lecture that I’ve been giving the last few months and many people have asked that I turn it into a video so that everyone can see the truth about fat vs bone marrow stem cell counts. I’ve also blogged on the topic of stem cell counts in adipose and bone…read more Statins Hurt Stem Cells: I Hate Being Right on this One…
The wonder drug of the 20th century that’s poised to be the thalidomide of the 21st century is statin cholesterol lowering drugs. Many years ago we saw profoundly negative effects of these drugs on human mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in culture. As a result, since then we have been restricting our stem cell patients from…read more
