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Blogthe top 10 causes of cartilage loss—and what you can do to prevent it
Regenexx patients often ask what they can do to help their cartilage. Understanding the causes of cartilage loss in the first place is helpful. obesity, mechanical. Being heavier places more wear and tear forces on cartilage. solution: lose weight. This one is simple,...
seven headache causes and cures
What’s the first thing you do to try to relieve an irritating headache? Swig down an extra cup of coffee? Raid the medicine cabinet and pop a couple of ibuprofen? Rub your throbbing temples? Migraine sufferers rely on neurologist-prescribed triptans, antihistamines,...
do you find knee replacement scary? learn your alternatives to surgery
Anyone who has taken a gander at knee-replacement pictures online knows that the procedure is not pretty. First there’s the demolition: The surgeon creates a long incision in the skin to access the knee joint and then...
nerve regeneration—the future doesn’t involve surgery
Regenexx first began treating injured nerves using orthobiologics delivered via ultrasound guidance in 2012. At that time, the concept that a precise injection could help nerve regeneration was revolutionary. After a few years of seeing nerve- injury patients...
lateral epicondylitis (tennis elbow): why there’s absolutely no need for surgery
The medical term for tennis elbow is lateral epicondylitis. The problem with this term is that it suggests swelling around the epicondyle, which is the bony bump you can feel on the outside of the elbow where many forearm muscles attach at their tendons. Numerous...
common shoulder surgery carries unwelcome side effects
Old shoulder-surgery habits die hard, despite numerous reports of unwelcome side effects. A study published in the January 2016 Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery has shown that adding an acromioplasty surgery to a surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff appears to...
supraspinatus tears and stem cells—clinical trial returns jiu jitsu competitor to the podium
Multiple clinical trials currently are underway at Regenexx, with the aim of critically examining techniques and sharing regenerative medicine outcomes with the scientific community. One of these trials is aimed at evaluating the success of injections of bone-marrow...
from chronic knee pain to Ironman—a Regenexx patient’s stem-cell story
The term “iron man” can call to mind either the classic character made popular in comic books and the movies or a super-fit person who rides, swims, and runs for hours on end. Michelle is the latter. Like many of us, she...
Regenexx doctors publish research on determining correct stem-cell dosage
Dose is a key issue in medicine, yet for same-day stem-cell treatments nobody seems to know the correct dose nor have a way to measure it so that it can be adjusted to help patients. A newly published Regenexx research paper begins to answer some of these critical...
CoQ10 supplement may ease inflammation due to arthritis
Can CoQ10 help arthritis? Co-enzyme Q10 (CoQ10) is a supplement that most people associate with protection from heart disease. A study published September 2, 2015, by Archives of Medical Research suggests that it may help in inflammatory arthritis. In particular, in a...
what’s the benefit of stem cells for arthritis if not structural repair?
Patients often are led to believe that a stem-cell injection used to treat moderate to severe knee osteoarthritis has the expectation of growing large amounts of new cartilage. This usually is not the case, but despite this many patients get prolonged relief. To...
hip pain may result from pain that originates in the back
Hip-replacement rates have been sky-rocketing in the past 10 years. Many patients who have gotten their hip replaced still have hip pain. How is that possible? The orthopedic surgeon never checked the lower back as a possible cause of hip pain. Now a new study...
positive results from largest knee osteoarthritis stem-cell treatment study to date
Regenexx, a nationwide network of doctors specializing in regenerative medicine and advanced interventional orthopedic techniques, announced the results of a peer-reviewed research study of 840 patients treated for knee osteoarthritis. All patients were treated using...
can a precise stem-cell injection help you avoid shoulder surgery?
Todd is a middle-aged man who tore his rotator cuff when lifting weights and was told he needed surgery to repair the tear. Todd chose to avoid the knife and instead got his own stem cells precisely injected into the tear using sophisticated imaging guidance. The...
good results continue four years after knee stem-cell treatment
Gilbert was 59 years old when he was first evaluated for a three-month-old knee injury. He was limping due to a meniscus tear, and was he was headed toward a knee-replacement surgery. Instead, he chose a regenerative stem-cell procedure. Four years later, his treated...
another study shows PRP effective in treating Achilles tendon
We’ve been using platelet-rich plasma (PRP) to successfully treat tendon injuries for many years. A study reported in the February 16, 2015, issue of Lancet medical journal is interesting as it combined an in vitro study and an in vivo human study to test the...
not all stem-cell procedures are synonymous with snake oil
On September 2, 2015, a highly syndicated USA Today article appeared that was critical of NFL stem-cell treatments and the athletes who seek these cures. The article leaves one with the impression that stem cells used to treat orthopedic problems are some sort of...
diabetes drugs cause severe joint pain
Diabetes and osteoarthritis have long been bedfellows. Statistically, people who have been diagnosed with diabetes have twice the likelihood of developing osteoarthritis. The FDA recently issued an urgent warning that diabetics taking a whole class of diabetic...