Sep 25, 2015 | ankle & foot, interventional orthopedics, knee, surgery, Uncategorized |
If you have an ankle injury and later develop knee pain, are the two connected? Regrettably, many doctors are not trained to think about biomechanics. There are reasons why so many doctors are clueless about how the body’s musculoskeletal system works. They receive...
Aug 10, 2015 | ankle & foot, platelet rich plasma (PRP), Regenexx SCP, Uncategorized |
Like all things, research can be smartly constructed or just plain dumb. A recent study of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) used to treat ankle sprains falls into the latter category. The platelets in platelet-rich plasma (PRP) come from whole blood and are concentrated in...
Aug 7, 2015 | ankle & foot, arthritis, surgery, Uncategorized |
Patients suffering from osteoarthritis of the ankle traditionally are told that their only hope is an ankle fusion. Since 2006, injections of the patient’s own stem cells have allowed many to avoid surgery and to recover ankle function with minimal pain. Research...
Aug 7, 2015 | ankle & foot, interventional orthopedics, Regenexx SD+, surgery, Uncategorized |
Interventional orthopedics allows doctors to use exacting injection techniques to replace invasive surgeries with innovative and less invasive procedures. The patient was a Cirque du Soleil performer with a nasty cartilage lesion in the tibial (top) part of her main...
