The Interventional Orthobiologics Blog
Blog covering topics and research in interventional orthobiologics, interventional orthopedics, and orthopedic procedures.
Does the Season Impact a Bone Marrow Draw?
Several months ago, during one of our weekly Friday Facebook Live events, a patient asked a super interesting question. What did they ask? If the season of your bone marrow draw impacted the recovery of cells. Let’s dig in. BMA 101 A Bone Marrow Concentrate (BMC) procedure contains your own stem and other cells and…read more
Stimwave: Is the Explosion of Stimulator Placement for Chronic Pain Good or Bad?
I write often enough that unless I’m passionate about what goes on the page, it’s hard to keep up. This is one of those blogs that will upset a significant number of my physician readers but because my “Irish is up”, it needs to make it to a blog. The topic is the explosion in…read more
Platelet Raisins: Can You Add Prolotherapy and PRP Together?
Many new patients tell me that they’ve gotten a combination of Prolotherapy plus PRP from another clinic. Today we’ll explore why it’s generally a bad practice to add Prolotherapy solution to PRP. Why? Because it makes damaged platelet raisins. To understand that, we’ll learn some basic physical chemistry. Let’s dig in. Defining Terms What Is…read more
The Orthopedic Delusion that Hip Impingement Should Be Operated
One of the more bizarre trends of the past decade-plus has been the idea that we should be operating on people with Hip Impingement. I’ve been a big critic for two reasons. First, it makes no common sense. Second, the science doesn’t support that we should be doing this to patients. Today we’ll cover a…read more
TMB Cracks Down on Faux Chiro “Stem Cell” Clinic Medical Director
One of the crazier and frankly more insulting components of the Stem Cell Wild West are “faux medical directors”. As you’ll see this scam is often run by chiropractic clinics offering fake birth tissue “stem cell” treatments. Let’s dig into what the Texas Medical Board just did to one of these medical directors and why…read more
What Is Evolution Biologyx? What Do They Have to Do with Interfyl?
It’s a full-time job keeping up with the shenanigans of sales reps selling birth tissues. This one is interesting because it involves a very legit billion-dollar company and an outfit that claims to be selling their product. Add in a heavy helping of high-risk Medicare billing ideas and we have a twisted tale. Let’s dig…read more
