The Interventional Orthobiologics Blog
Blog covering topics and research in interventional orthobiologics, interventional orthopedics, and orthopedic procedures.
What is Regenexx? We’re Looking for Few Good Men (or Women)…
What is Regenexx? This past month we held our biannual RegenexxNetwork provider course. It was a huge affair, lectures every morning and cadaver labs every afternoon for 5 arduous days. Every provider had to demonstrate that they could diagnose and then place an injection into a specific structure using precise guidance with Musculoskeletal Ultrasound, Fluoroscopy,…read more
ACL Surgery Healing without The Surgery!
A 16 soccer phenom injures her ACL and an MRI shows that it’s shredded. If she gets her knee ACL removed and a new ACL surgically installed, the research says that she’ll likely have significant arthritis by the time she’s 30. In addition, 2/3’rds of patients who have the ACL surgery don’t return to pre-injury…read more
Regenexx Reviews-A Grateful Patient Reports Her Experience on Facebook
Regenexx Reviews…From Real Patients In keeping with my goal of posting more individual patient reports, or, “Regenexx Reviews” to balance out the hard core data I’ve been posting from the registry, here’s another Facebook post. This one is about the excellent care delivered by Dr. Newton here at our Colorado clinic and the patient’s update on the early outcome…read more
Stem Cell Injection Safety Research
Safety has always been a big concern of ours. As a result, we have published more data on stem cell safety in the peer reviewed medical research for orthopedic applications than any other group world-wide. For example, our n=339 stem cell safety paper published in 2011 was named the best of it’s class by independent…read more
Belly Back Pain: What are the Facet Joints and can a Beer Gut Hurt Them?
Your back hurts and like many Americans you have a belly. Could there be a connection? Is there such a thing as belly back pain? First, the spine is shown above. Note that in the blow out in the dashed circle, there are joints in the back of the spine called facet joints and then…read more
Hand Arthritis Stem Cell Facebook Post by a Grateful Patient
This is a recent Facebook post from a grateful Hand Arthritis patient who had his own stem cells injected into his CMC joint via precise injection. I thought I would share it… Ronnie Baker commented on a link Regenexx shared. Ronnie wrote: “Thanks to Dr. Ron Hanson last March I had the SD stem cell…read more 