The Interventional Orthobiologics Blog
Blog covering topics and research in interventional orthobiologics, interventional orthopedics, and orthopedic procedures.
Our Original Stem Cell Safety Paper has been Declared in the Top 1% of Papers in it’s Area
Our original stem cell safety paper was just declared in the top 1% of the papers in it’s field. This means that it’s been cited by more than 20 other papers as research of authority. This is on the heels of it’s successor paper that again looked at stem cell safety in the same patients…read more
Knee Replacement Cost: Prices Soar as the Outcomes Drop and the Complications Mount
What does a knee replacement cost? There was a great New York Times article on Sunday that reported that patients without insurance (and some with insurance), as being priced out of knee or hip replacement surgeries. One of the issues brought up is that the cost of a knee or hip device is controlled by…read more
General Anesthetics and Dementia: Do You Know Which One Is Less Likely to Fry Your Brain?
Is there a link between the use of general anesthetics and dementia risk? General anesthesia is the type where they put a patient to sleep with a tube in the throat. This topic has a personal interest for me as my father started a serious cognitive decline after hip surgery, so I’ve always wondered if…read more
Et Tu Tylenol? Tylenol and Deadly Skin Rashes
Tylenol and deadly skin rashes? This has been a bad year for over the counter pain relievers. First, the American Heart Association puts out a public education program about the cardiac dangers of NSAID drugs like Motrin, Alleve, and Celebrex and then more data is published showing that NSAID drugs have a host of deadly…read more
Doing the Caymans Stem Cell Tourist Scene…
This Cayman Islands stem cell clinic week I have my family down here. I have to say, summer is a great time to come, as it’s only a few degrees hotter and there are far fewer tourists. As a result, I have been doing the stem cell tourist scene here, which means that I’m finally…read more
What Terrible Triad? An ACL Injury that’s Really an LCL…
I’m down in the Caymans again, so blogging and time slows down a bit. I did see a patient yesterday that I wanted to share. This is a British gentleman who injured his ACL skiing in Argentina last month. The surgeons he consulted wanted to replace the ACL and the MRI showed only a change in…read more
