The Interventional Orthobiologics Blog
Blog covering topics and research in interventional orthobiologics, interventional orthopedics, and orthopedic procedures.
Do You Want to Prevent ACL Injury? Beef Up Your Hammys…
How can you prevent ACL injury? The ACL ligament is a major front-back stabilizer of the knee. It’s often injured on jumping and then landing. As a result a research team at the University of Oregon recently tried to find out which conditions on landing were more or less likely to result in ACL injury.…read more
What Is the Thoracodorsal Fascia and Why Should You Care?
What if I told you that there’s an important structure holding your spine together that you’ve never heard of? In fact, your doctor has also likely never heard of this structure nor does he likely know what it does. The structure is the TDF and the thoracodorsal fascia function is to hold your lower spine…read more
Dr. Centeno Presents Grand Rounds at HSS on Friday
Dr. Centeno will be presenting Grand Rounds in Manhattan this Friday on “Biologic Therapies for Lumbar Radiculopathy” at The Hospital for Special Surgery. This HSS Centeno lecture will be from 7:15-8:15 am in the 2nd Floor Conference Center. He will be presenting the team Regenexx experience in using novel autologous growth factors and stem cells to treat…read more
Avoid ACL Surgery: More Evidence of ACL Healing on MRI without Surgery
Can you avoid ACL surgery by using your own stem cells to heal your knee? I’ve blogged many times before about our new technology whereby we perform an exacting injection of the patient’s own stem cells directly into the torn knee ACL ligament. When we first began this type of therapy, we figured that only…read more
If Your Knee Replacement Really Hurts, Can You Blame Your Parents?
We’re just starting to understand how different we all are. In the 1960s and even when I graduated medical school in the 80s, physicians believed that all of their patients were the same. In fact, much of our current regulatory SNAFUs regarding cell therapies are based on this premise. Turns out, we physicians were wrong,…read more
Knee ACL Tear Recovery? Are You Ever the Same After an ACL Surgery?
Almost every patient I have ever met believes that their knee will be the same after surgical ACL tear recovery. The ACL is a major stabilizer of the knee and often injured in sports. Most patients believe that when they injure their ACL ligaments, they can just get a new one-no harm no foul. I’ve already…read more 