The Interventional Orthobiologics Blog

Nonsurgical Hip AVN Treatment: A 5 Year Update

Is a nonsurgical hip AVN treatment possible? Back in the spring of 2009, we treated a woman who had hip AVN – a disease where the hip bone slowly dies off and the hip joint collapses, eventually becoming a square peg in a round hole. When a grade 2 lesion is diagnosed, it’s almost certain…read more

Less Invasive Hip Replacement? Metal Toxicity and Brain Changes in Hip Resurfacing Patients

Less invasive hip replacement has been all the rage this past decade. Often called, “hip resurfacing”, the concept seems attractive. You take out less of the arthritic hip joint and because the hip joint device is smaller, you can use a smaller incision. In fact, while in cardiology “minimally invasive” means treating someone through a…read more

Outside Knee Pain? Are Slightly Irritated Nerves in Your Back Frying Your Knee?

I was traveling late this week and had to workout in a hotel room. I’ve had outside knee pain this past few months and my outside meniscus isn’t doing well. Rather than getting it surgically whacked out, which would do me no good, I wanted to try and figure out why it’s going bad. As…read more

Can Stem Cells be a Long-term Alternative to Knee Replacement?

Can stem cells be a long-term alternative to knee replacement? I saw a patient in the clinic last week who I had treated two and a half years ago with a series of stem cell injections instead of a knee replacement. He’s a local physician and like many health care providers had seen one too…read more

Should You Become a Vegetarian or Eat Loads of Meat? New Research Says being a Carnivore Could be Your Best Bet…

I live in Boulder, Colorado, the fittest and most veggie city in America. Don’t take my word for that, it just received those honors for a record 3 of the last 4 years. Obesity is rare here and Boulder has it’s significant share of Vegetarians. In fact, if you found yourself here on a business…read more

Should You Treat One or Both Arthritic Knees with Stem Cells?

There’s little published data on the use of a same day stem cell treatment for knee arthritis. What is published on knee arthritis stem cell therapy is focused on small numbers of patients with outcome measures-i.e. did this small number of patients report that they got better or not? I recently found amusing one adipose based stem…read more