Shoulder Labrum Tear Treatment – Broomfield, CO

Christopher J. Centeno, M.D. is a specialist in regenerative medicine and has helped found the emerging specialty of Interventional Orthobiologics. He has had many world-wide and U.S. procedural firsts in Orthobiologics and is CMO of Regenexx and a founding member of the Interventional Orthopedics Foundation (IOF). He is one of the few physicians in the world with extensive experience in the culture expansion of and clinical use of adult stem cells to treat orthopedic injuries. He is responsible for the world’s largest and oldest stem cell treatment registry focused in the field of orthopedic injuries. His clinic incorporates a variety of Orthobiologic injections that are delivered via precision, image guidance to help patients from all over the world avoid more invasive orthopedic surgery. Dr. Centeno also runs lab and clinical research groups that have the benefit of a state of the art cell biology research facility.

Dr. Centeno has chaired multiple international research based conferences. He also maintains an active research based practice, producing multiple publications per year that are listed in the US National Library of Medicine. Dr. Centeno has also served as editor-in-chief of a medical research journal dedicated to traumatic injury and serves as a peer reviewer for multiple research publications. He has lectured all over the world on regenerative therapies including twice at the Vatican in Rome.

Dr. Centeno trained at the Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Medical Center and the Institute for Rehabilitation Research. He hails from both Florida and New York and currently resides in Boulder, Colorado with his wife and three children.

Areas treated: Cervical Spine (including CCI), Elbow, Foot & Ankle, Hand & Wrist, Hip, Knee, Lumbar Spine, Other Conditions, Shoulder, Thoracic Spine

As a physician, compassion, communication, and grace are central themes in Dr. Schultz’s medical practice. His emphasis is on the evaluation and treatment of thoracic and cervical disc, facet, nerve, and ligament injuries, including the non-surgical treatment of craniocervical instability (CCI).

Dr. Schultz is an interventional pain management specialist, double board certified in anesthesiology and pain management. He is also a member and prior instructor for the Spine Interventional Society (SIS).

In 2005, Dr. Schultz co-founded Regenexx with his colleague Chris Centeno, MD. Together, they pioneered the specialty of Interventional Orthopedics and were the first in the world to apply stem cells from bone marrow concentrate to treat orthopedic injuries.

He has published numerous works in the field of anesthesiology and regenerative science and brings 20 years of experience to Centeno-Schultz Clinic and its patients.

Being active is a central part of his life, and he enjoys skiing, biking, hiking, and sailing with his wife, children, and grandchildren.

Areas treated: Cervical Spine (including CCI), Elbow, Foot & Ankle, Hand & Wrist, Hip, Knee, Lumbar Spine, Other Conditions, Shoulder, Thoracic Spine

Dr. Pitts is originally from Chicago, IL, but is a medical graduate of Vanderbilt School of Medicine in Nashville, TN. After Vanderbilt he completed residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) at Emory University in Atlanta, GA, and is board certified. He came to Colorado as a fellow at the Centeno Schultz Clinic to learn more about regenerative medicine and interventional orthopedics.

He completed his fellowship in 2014. He is the current Centeno-Schultz Clinic fellowship director and regularly teaches at regenerative medicine conferences. He has been involved in research and development of the regenerative procedures and post procedural rehabilitation. He has pioneered several procedures such as the cervical percutaneous anterior longitudinal ligament PALL procedure, cervical intradiscal procedure, and hip ligamentum teres procedure. He is a chief editor of the textbook “Atlas of Interventional Orthopedics” that describes the technique and rational for regenerative procedure under ultrasound and Xray guidance.

Additionally he has interests in nutrition, supplements, and complementary and alternative medicine. He has written and published a nutrition guide, “Nutrition 2.0: 21st Century Guide to Nutrition and Health.” Dr. Pitts believes in taking a holistic approach to patient care.

In his spare time he enjoys all outdoor activities, sports, running, hiking, lifting weights, Crossfit, biking, snowboarding, tennis, and traveling with his family.

Areas treated: Cervical Spine (including CCI), Elbow, Foot & Ankle, Hand & Wrist, Hip, Knee, Lumbar Spine, Shoulder, Thoracic Spine

A South Florida native, Dr. Markle is skilled in advanced interventional injection techniques into the spine and peripheral joints, enabling him to treat patients with orthobiologics.

During his fellowship at the Centeno-Schultz Clinic, Dr. Markle gained significant experience in interventional orthopedics and regenerative medicine.

In addition to working at the Centeno-Schultz Clinic, Dr. Markle is an active member of the Interventional Orthopedic Foundation and serves as a course instructor, training physicians from around the world in advanced interventional orthopedic injection techniques.

He’s an outdoor sports enthusiast. In his free time, he enjoys hiking, snowboarding, rock climbing, mountain biking, Olympic weightlifting and Crossfit, and spending time with his wife and two dogs.

Areas treated: Cervical Spine (including CCI), Elbow, Foot & Ankle, Hand & Wrist, Hip, Knee, Lumbar Spine, Shoulder, Thoracic Spine

Dr. Money is an Indiana native who now proudly calls Colorado home. He believes there’s a better way to care for patients than the status quo and that the human body has incredible healing capabilities. Throughout his career, he has sought to learn more about harnessing those potentials without the use of steroid injections and surgery.

He attended medical school at Kansas City University and then returned to Indiana to complete a physical medicine and rehabilitation residency program at Indiana University, where he was trained on non-surgical methods to improve health and function as well as rehabilitative care following trauma, stroke, spinal cord injury, brain injury, and more.

Dr. Money considers golf his favorite activity and he has been playing for 25+ years. He is the only physician in Colorado who is actively certified by the Titleist Performance Institute. That means he understands how certain characteristics of your golf swing are either caused by or can lead to injuries anywhere from the neck to the foot.

Dr. Money has been involved in athletics his entire life. During graduate and medical school he was a competitive triathlete and, more recently, had the opportunity to be a part of the medical staff for Ironman triathlon races. Now, he fully embraces the Colorado lifestyle with endless cycling routes, snowboarding in the winter, and summiting “14ers” (14,000 foot peaks for those not from Colorado) in the summer.

Areas treated: Cervical Spine (Not Upper Cervical or CCI)*, Elbow, Foot & Ankle, Hand & Wrist, Hip, Knee, Lumbar Spine, Shoulder, Thoracic Spine

I became a doctor because I had multiple sports injuries as a young man and I had loved ones living with chronic pain. I fell in love with biomechanics during the rehab process and decided to pursue a career in medicine and specifically physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R). My approach to patient care is that every single patient is a VIP. I pride myself on being consistent and thorough with all of my evaluations and treatments. I moved from Philadelphia, PA to Broomfield, CO in June 2024 to train at the prestigious Interventional Orthopedics Fellowship at the Centeno Schultz clinic. After completion of fellowship, I decided to stay and work with the amazing team at CSC.

Dr. Pelle is a highly accomplished physician specializing in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation with a deep passion for interventional orthopedics. He earned his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2020 and subsequently completed his residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He has a strong research background, notably winning an award at the 2023 Interventional Orthobiologics Foundation (IOF) Max Meeting for his research abstract.

Dr. Pelle is passionate about medical education and has served as an instructor for resident and medical student ultrasound courses at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as various educational programs. His research and clinical interests include the use of regenerative medicine techniques such as platelet-rich plasma (PRP) and mesenchymal stem cells in orthopedic and musculoskeletal health. Outside of medicine, Dr. Pelle is an avid reader who reads multiple books a month, enjoys hiking, traveling, skiing, pheasant and duck hunting, weightlifting, men’s health, nutrition, optimizing athletic performance, and spending time with his wife and children.

Areas treated: Cervical Spine (Not Upper Cervical or CCI)*, Elbow, Foot & Ankle, Hand & Wrist, Hip, Knee, Lumbar Spine, Shoulder, Thoracic Spine