The Interventional Orthobiologics Blog

Helping to Sort Hype from Reality in Knee Stem Cell Arthritis Treatments

We’re seeing an explosion in physicians using stem cells for problems such as knee arthritis from small private clinics to university orthopedic and pain management departments. On the one hand, as the physicians with the most experience in the country using stem cells for orthopedic problems like knee arthritis, it’s helpful to have that company.…read more

What is Regenokine?

What is regenokine? This past week I evaluated a patient from Connecticut who works in finance. He had been to Germany to get the Regenokine treatment on his low back, which didn’t work. He had educated himself quite extensively about his spine and relayed some fascinating things about the state of the art of spine…read more

Hip AVN Surgery Alternative: Another Hip AVN Patient Treated with Stem Cells

Can an injection of stem cells act as a hip AVN surgery alternative? PL is a young man in his twenties who was diagnosed with hip AVN. Like many diagnosed with this disease, he had no risk factors and it’s likely that we’ll never know how he got the disease. He saw several orthopedic surgeons…read more

Will the Clinical Promise of Stem Cells be Wasted by Profit Over Science?

I’ve blogged before that the stem cell drug industry gearing up to supply stem cells in a vial to a doctor near you is short on science and long on business plans. What do I mean? I’ve never quite understood how this was all going to work, shipping live cells frozen and not having a…read more

Supplements to Save Cartilage: New Research Shows Glucosamine/Chondroitin Work to Protect Cartilage

Are there supplements to save cartilage? I went to the American Academy of Orthopedic surgeons web-site the other day and looked up glucosamine. Knowing the research on both glucosamine and chondroitin and arthritis well, I was dumbfounded when I saw that the site said that no research showed these supplements protected cartilage, but they could…read more

Concerned About Stem Cell Knee Therapy Cost? Read on…

Concerned about stem cell knee therapy cost?  After all, how hard could this stuff be? I met a patient today who exemplified what’s wrong with that wild wild west of stem cells out there. This gentleman has a medical degree from Libya and is getting his doctorate in public health in the U.S. In 2010 he…read more