The Interventional Orthobiologics Blog
Blog covering topics and research in interventional orthobiologics, interventional orthopedics, and orthopedic procedures.
You are a Clone of your Former Self! How Old are Your Cells?
I often get asked by patients how long it will take for bone marrow to regenerate once it’s removed to harvest stem cells. A researcher in Sweden has begun to answer these and other questions using a new technique that involves carbon 14 dating of the cell’s DNA. His results are surprising in that certain…read more
Stem Cell Treatment for Hip AVN: New Research
We’ve been performing stem cell treatment for hip AVN since approximately 2006 and have seen some good results in the right patients. Unlike many other things we treat, we weren’t the first to tackle this issue with stem cells, that honor going to European researchers in the 90s. Now a new randomized controlled trial shows…read more
Hip Labral Tear with Arthritis = Poor Outcomes
The most common hip surgery in America, outside of hip replacement is now hip arthroscopy to treat a labral tear. In one four year period, the number of hip arthroscopy surgeries exploded by 600%! Many of these patients have a hip labral tear with arthritis. However, according to a recent study, many of hip surgeries…read more
5 Food Myths that Might Be Slowly Killing You!
I was reading a short scientific abstract out of Denmark this morning that was well written and pointed to a number of things about diet that have been debunked over the last decade. What hit me was that the vast majority of of my patients (and some doctors) still believe many of these food myths…read more
Can We Measure Pain with a Blood Test?
Is it possible to measure pain with a blood test? Pain is very difficult to quantify and has been almost impossible to objectively measure. The state of the art of pain measurement right now, believe it or not, is a pain scale that was invented in the 1920s. A University of Pittsburgh study shows that we…read more
Neck and Thumb Pain: A Doctor’s Personal Story
Are neck and thumb pain connected? Can a nerve in your neck cause hand arthritis? In the early summer, I had a pinched nerve in my neck and shortly thereafter, on the hand that was getting numb, evidence of early arthritis appeared in that thumb joint. Believe it or not, these two things are quite…read more 