Non-Surgical Treatment For Spinal Stenosis In Broomfield, CO

403 Summit Blvd, Suite 201 Broomfield, CO 80021

Each spinal vertebra (spinal bone) has a hole in the middle — the spinal canal — through which the nerves and spinal cord run. When structures inside or outside the spinal canal put pressure on these nerves, it’s called spinal stenosis.

Because the nerves that run through the spine are pain-sensitive and connect to your legs, you can get lower back pain as well as weakness or numbness in your legs or feet. People with spinal stenosis tend to suffer from standing intolerance, and standing for any length of time can cause back pain or leg symptoms that immediately improve once they sit down.

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How Is Spinal Stenosis Commonly Treated?

Common more conservative treatments include physical therapy, anti-inflammatory medications, and high-dose epidural steroid injections to help reduce swelling around the nerves. However, although steroid injections temporarily help the pain, they can have severe side effects and reduce your body’s ability to heal. 

If all of the above fails, spinal stenosis is treated with surgery to decompress the area, which often means removing bone, disc, and ligaments around the tight spot in the spinal canal. Other times, spinal fusion surgery is performed (hardware is inserted to bolt the spinal bones together), but this can lead to adjacent segment disease (ASD), where areas above and below the fusion can get damaged over time. 

Additionally, spinal surgery comes with significant downtime.

That’s why we’ve developed a different approach.

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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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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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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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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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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During Regenexx’s outpatient procedures, custom concentrations of your body’s natural healing agents are injected into the exact areas of damage in the spine. Treatments use only your own blood to make super-concentrated platelet-rich plasma (PRP) or your own bone marrow concentrate (BMC), which contains stem cells.

Spinal stenosis treatment may include Regenexx-DDD protocol, which is the world’s first alternative to stenosis surgery that allows you to maintain your normal anatomy. Best of all, your downtime will be a fraction of what it is with surgery and generally requires little or no opioid pain medications or time off of work.

Am I a candidate?
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Join Chris Centeno, MD, founder of Regenexx, to learn how Regenexx procedures can help treat your back pain without surgery and lead to a faster recovery.

During this free webinar you’ll learn:

  • How procedures using bone marrow concentrate (BMC) and platelet-rich plasma (PRP) compare to surgery and other spine pain treatment options
  • Procedure expectations
  • Answers to the most common questions about regenerative medicine treatments
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At Regenexx, we want the best outcomes for everyone. So we’ve developed a process to determine if our treatments may be right for you.

During your initial appointment, your Regenexx doctor will use our four-part SANS (stability, articulation, neuromuscular, and symmetry) evaluation to identify the underlying causes of your pain. Your doctor will examine your injury through a full range of motion and may use ultrasound to observe the inner workings in real time.

This is important, as research shows that an MRI indicating stenosis isn’t enough to appropriately diagnose stenosis as the cause of back pain.

Am I a candidate?

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Our goal is to use the least invasive, least expensive procedure to get the desired results. Your Regenexx physician will work with you to determine whether that would be a platelet procedure or a BMC procedure.

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