The Interventional Orthobiologics Blog
Blog covering topics and research in interventional orthobiologics, interventional orthopedics, and orthopedic procedures.
Understanding Your Spine Video…
I talk with many patients who have chronic back and neck everyday. Understanding your spine is crucial in understanding what’s wrong with your spine. If you don’t have a good sense of what’s broken, it’s really hard to make informed decisions about what to do to help the problem. Hence, I put together a video that focuses on building…read more
What is A2M (Alpha 2 Macroglobulin)?
This past few months I’ve been pinged quite a bit on A2M. So what is A2M and why should you care? Is this a next generation treatment for arthritis or is the cart before the horse? There’s a commercial machine on the market to concentrate this substance from blood and the sales reps that sell…read more New Regenexx Research Lab Video…
We took receipt of our nifty $200,000 cell sorter this week, so I took the opportunity to take a quick video of the tools we now have in our Colorado Regenexx research lab. It’s always interesting to see this news story or that showing a doctor performing stem cell treatments with an automated bedside centrifuge…read more New Video on Back and Neck Stem Cell Treatments…
The issue of stem cells and disc problems is a complex one that often gets simplified by doctors advertising stem cell spine treatments into: “stem cells are magic fairy dust to be sprinkled on the spine to cure even severe degenerative disc disease”. The truth however, is much more complex than this simple message. Based…read more Is The Madison Avenue Statin Myth About to Fall?
It’s been an interesting 2015 so far for heart health. We’ve seen the ridiculous notions that eating fatty food makes you fat and that eating cholesterol has anything to do with heart disease both debunked by the U.S. government. Now a new study threatens the multi-billion Madison avenue marketing machine behind statin drugs-America’s most profitable…read more
Dark Chocolate Reduces Heart Attack Clotting Risk
Dark chocolate has been shown to be pretty good for you across multiple studies. Now a new study adds another neat effect ̶ a reduction in the type of clotting caused by emotional stress responsible for the Monday morning heart attack. This is the observation that men under stress tend to clot more which can…read more
