The Interventional Orthobiologics Blog
Blog covering topics and research in interventional orthobiologics, interventional orthopedics, and orthopedic procedures.
ACL Surgery Return to Sports: Few Ready to Return to Play by 8 Months!
There’s a push right now in ACL surgery return to sports to shorten the time actually needed for recovery. For some surgeons, this means telling patients that they can return to sports by 6-8 months. Now a new study questions the wisdom of those recommendations. First, the ACL is a main stabilizing ligament of the knee. When…read more
Pfizer Dumps Stem Cell Therapy From Its Portfolio
There was big news this week in the world of cellular drugs. One of the world’s largest pharma companies chose to drop it’s FDA approval pipeline for cell drugs. Let’s explore the top three reasons why. Pfizer had partnered with a company called Athersys who has a culture expanded mesenchymal stem cell product called Multistem.…read more More Long-term Knee Stem Cell Follow-ups!
I recently blogged about a patient who had come in for a stem cell top-up at 7 years after her cultured knee stem cell injection. As a result of that post, I was contacted by two more patients – one on Facebook and the other on Instagram, both who gave a nice shout out at 5…read more
Counting Stem Cells – What’s the Proper Knee Arthritis Stem Cell Dose?
I treated an elderly woman who had arthritis in both knees yesterday with the Regenexx-SD stem cell procedure, which is common. Since we count the number of stem cells harvested, we knew based on our registry research that there weren’t enough cells to properly treat both sides, i.e. she only had enough to effectively treat…read more
Why Do Surgeons Still Perform Knee Arthritis Surgery?
As many readers of this blog know, there is little evidence that knee arthroscopy to “clean up” knee arthritis is effective. In fact, this type of knee arthritis surgery has been shown to be ineffective, yet it’s still performed. Our colleagues in Great Britain have just published an article about the uphill battle the NHS…read more
Nice Story on Our Regenexx Network Chicago Provider Mitch Sheinkop!
The Chicago Tribune recently did a very nice piece of one of our Chicago Regenexx Network orthopedic stem cell providers, Mitch Sheinkop. Mitch often describes himself as a recovering orthopedic surgeon, meaning that for the most part he’s given up the scalpel in favor of needle based interventional orthopedics to offer his patients more advanced…read more
