Cellular Orthopedics Blog

Two weekends ago, a retired vascular surgeon posed the question to me: hence the title of this Blog. In response, I cited a Tale of two sisters, and I will repeat the anecdote as I had answered his question. The wife of a foot and ankle surgeon manages the related...

California Clinic Chain Wins Its Case with the FDA A big event happened that may shake up the FDA regulation of autologous orthobiologics. What Happened? The court ruling on August 30th by the US District Court (Central District of California) was in favor of the...

Steroids have always been the “go-to thing” for an inflamed joint but the standard of care has evolved. Many of us have replaced steroid injections with PRP as the new standard. Despite the immediate pain relief that a cortisone injection when combined with a local...

I am not referring to Shakespeare's Macbeth nor to Kurt Vonnegut's short story. My knees and hips are tired of waiting for the FDA to approve the Personalized Stem Cell Clinical Trial. I am moving forward with an alternative option that should and could provide me...

“Exciting things are happening at PSC. Next month we will be submitting to the FDA our Phase 2 clinical protocol that is designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of stem cells as a treatment for Knee Osteoarthritis, but in a much larger trial. This will be a...

Out-of-pocket (OOP) costs for medical and surgical care can result ina  substantial financial burden for patients and families. Relatively little is known regarding OOP costs for commercially insured patients receiving orthopaedic surgery. OOP costs associated with a...

For some time now, I have been telling patients and writing in my blog about upcoming clinical trials using adipose-derived stem cells for arthritis management. While the stem cells in bone marrow continue to be used for lessening the symptoms and improving the...

Using minimally invasive options for patients, we are able to harvest, concentrate, and prepare a patient’s own fat for the repair, reconstruction, and replacement of injured or damaged tissue. Adipose tissue, commonly known as fat, has many natural reparative...

U.S. hospitals performed more than 100,000 surgeries on older patients during the first year of the pandemic, according to a new Lown Institute analysis. The healthcare think tank relied on Medicare claims data and analyzed eight common low-value procedures. It called...

I am an Orthopedic Surgeon; not an orthopedic physician or one of the many charlatans who hold themselves out as “specialists” in regenerative medicine. To be a Board Certified Orthopedic Surgeon and Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons is an arduous...

Autologous stem cell therapy means your own stem cells are used to treat you. In other words, the donor is also the recipient. Over ten years ago, I started aspirating a patient’s own bone marrow as the source of stem cells for diminishing the symptoms and improving...

My Cellular Orthopedic/Regenerative Medicine practice is evidence-based. In short, we integrate patient care with research. Our outcomes and patient satisfaction data over the last two years clearly show that the highly concentrated injectate of A2M and concentrated...