The Interventional Orthobiologics Blog

If You Have Any Arthritis Hip FAI Surgery Is a Bad Idea

The number of hip FAI surgeries has exploded in recent years. However, there has been a consistent finding in the research that shows that anyone with any type of hip arthritis is not a candidate for this surgery. A big super study on the topic was just published. Let’s dig in on what it told…read more

Does a Partial Rotator Cuff Tear Get Bigger Over Time?

If you have a small rotator cuff tear, will it get bigger over time? This is a critical issue as we have many patients who put off getting their shoulder treated for years. So what is their risk? Let’s dig in. The Shoulder Rotator Cuff Your shoulder has four muscles that stabilize the joint and…read more

Is Marc Harris, ND the Smartest Living Human?

The world’s youngest Ph.D. listed in the Guinness World Book of Records was a German 13-year-old in the early 1800s. However, as you know, in the stem cell wild west, as I often say, “you just can’t make this stuff up”. So now we have a naturopath who injects fake stem cells into the necks…read more

Are Umbilical Cord Stem Cells Better for Knee Cartilage Repair?

Let’s look today at two studies that posit an interesting question. They both ask if umbilical cord stem cells are better than the patient’s own bone marrow concentrate in healing a small cartilage lesion in the knee. This is an important topic because we have hundreds of crazy chiropractic clinics claiming that they are injecting…read more

Those Opposed to COVID Vaccination Have a Causation Problem

One of the rationales now being given by many on the Internet is that since lots of complications and other things are being reported in an FDA vaccine adverse event reporting system, that this means that the two existing COVID vaccines are unsafe. To understand why that’s just noise, let’s learn a little about how…read more

Your Ligaments Respond to Force!

All of your ligaments are alive. What I mean by that is that they respond to forces because they have living cells. Let’s dig in. Ligaments Are the Duct Tape that Hold Your Bones Together The ligaments hold bones together like pieces of duct tape. They stabilize your joints as they get toward their maximum…read more