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Non-Surgical Back Pain Solutions In Broomfield, CO

403 Summit Blvd, Suite 201 Broomfield, CO 80021

Your Alternative to Back Surgery

Have you been told that epidural steroid injections or invasive surgery are your only options to treat your back pain? Interventional orthopedics provides a non-surgical alternative that uses your own cells to repair the damage.

Steroid epidurals that place steroid medication around irritated or inflamed nerves in the spine do help patients avoid surgery for a time. The very high dose of steroids, however, can also cause severe side effects and actually reduce the body’s ability to heal ultimately leading to degeneration of the tissue and actually speeding the need for surgery.

Spinal fusion surgery is a highly invasive procedure that has a significant risk of complications. Research shows that complications occur in 36% of fusion patients while 76% still require narcotics for pain following their recovery from surgery. Surgical patients also miss three times as much work as those who don’t have surgery. A simple injection of your own cells, by contrast, has less than a 0.1% risk while the results of a spine fusion cannot be reversed and are categorized as a high-risk procedure with little guarantee of success.

At Regenexx we invented a new approach to orthopedic care we call Interventional Orthopedics. This approach involves the use of image guidance (flouroscopy and ultrasound) to precisely place high-dose cells from your body directly where they are needed in a specific joint structure. These cells then work in the site of your injury to grow into new, healthy tissue, a process that will only occur if the cells have been placed exactly where they need to go in order to achieve positive outcomes for the patient. This precise approach to orthopedic care can’t be replicated by a surgeon or nurse in a chiropractor’s office. Interventional Orthopedics requires thousands of hours of training following a standardized protocol process to become a licensed Regenexx physician.

Regenexx has more than a decade of experience in interventional orthopedic treatments for spine pain that allows us to address as many factors as possible to gain insight into the true cause of the problem.  We identify the most probable sources of pain and select the most appropriate treatment options available. Only then can the natural healing process be initiated using the safest, least invasive procedure possible.

The innovative Regenexx procedures help restore spinal function and decrease pain without the need for surgery. During this outpatient procedure, our expert physicians use precise image guidance to inject custom concentrations of your body’s natural healing mechanisms into and around the areas of damage to help stabilize your spine and improve overall function and mobility.

This page contains an extensive library of educational resources on spine conditions and our patented spine procedures created by Regenexx and our founder, Chris Centeno, M.D.. We encourage you to research your options.

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Regenexx Benefits

  • Increased function
  • Pain reduction
  • Most individuals do not experience extensive downtime
  • Minimal time off of work
  • No surgery
  • Minimal use of mobility tools (crutches, etc.)
  • Minimal disruption of regular routine

403 Summit Blvd
Suite 201
Broomfield, CO 80021

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Dr. Centeno is one of the few physicians in the world with extensive experience in the culture expansion of and clinical use of adult stem cells contained in bone marrow concentrate to treat orthopedic injuries. His clinic incorporates a variety of revolutionary pain management techniques to bring its broad patient base reduced pain and improved function.

Dr. Centeno – an international expert and specialist in regenerative medicine and the clinical use of mesenchymal stem cells in orthopedics – treats patients from all over the US who travel to Colorado to undergo innovative, non-surgical treatments.

In 2005, Dr. Centeno co-founded Regenexx with his colleague John Schultz, 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 hails from both Florida and New York and currently resides in Boulder, Colorado, with his wife and three children.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

Regenexx Results

Since 2005 we have conducted research, accumulated patient results data, and obtained direct feedback from our patients. With one purpose in mind. To help you make an informed, confident decision to treat your condition.

Patient Results

Regenexx has performed more than 132,000 procedures worldwide. Regenexx keeps records of Regenexx procedures performed by physicians in our network in our outcomes database.

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Before & After MRI Library

We have accumulated patient imaging before and after a Regenexx procedure to document anatomy change.

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Spine 101

Dr. Chris Centeno explains how all of the pieces of the spine work together to maintain our health and how a single weakness in this important structure can lead to serious structural problems.

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