Cellular Orthopedics Blog
Chicken Soup for Arthritis or Micro-Fractured Adipose Tissue
You may recall from my last several Blogs that The American Journal of Orthopedics published my paper in November: Safety and Efficacy of Micro-Fractured Adipose Tissue for Knee Arthritis. While surfing the internet this morning, I noted that many physicians are...
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Patient Online Resources for Biologic Therapies
As interest in biologic therapies for arthritis-a needle, not a knife-continues to expand; patients increasingly are turning to the ads in newspapers or searching the Internet to gather information on this topic. While there is still a lack of scientific consensus on...
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When will the “Stem Cell” charlatans be prosecuted?
My Blog has frequently addressed the false ads claiming Amniotic Fluid, Chord Blood, Wharton’s Jelly and the like contain living stem cells emphasizing that the processes of preservation and sterilization followed by freezing kills off any living cells. Sylvia Perez...
read moreA Stem Cell Thanksgiving Message of Proof
While growing up in Albany Park, 16-inch softball was a way of life starting at the Haugan Grammar School playground in early February and continuing until the football season in the late fall while basketball went on all year round. Weather permitting, we relocated...
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A Stem Cell Thanksgiving message of proof
"THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT MY 80-YEAR-OLD TEAM 'CHICAGO GEEZERS' WON THE WINTER NATIONALS FOR OUR AGE GROUP IN FT MYERS 11/6 - 11/8. I RAN FOR MYSELF AND HIT .710. THE BAD NEWS IS MY LEFT KNEE IS A BIT MORE ACHY NOW, EVEN WHEN I AM SLEEPING OR NOT PLAYING SOFTBALL. IT IS...
read moreWhy the variability in Clinical Response to Stem Cell intervention for arthritis
Mesenchymal Stem Cells, or MSCs, are multipotent stromal cells that can differentiate into a variety of cell types or affect other cells by releasing the proteins categorized as Cytokines and Exosomes. Cytokines are small proteins that are important in cell signaling....
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Joint Preservation with Proteins and Stem Cells
My goal is to inform each and every patient who presents with a painful joint, the cause of their pain; and based on our scientific and clinical evidence, that intervention which will have the greatest chance of short term and long-term success. While inflammation in...
read moreFrom Degenerative Arthritis to Joint Regeneration
There is a lot of confusion in the public and professional mindset concerning the field of Stem Cell management for arthritis; even in the clinical literature concerning the generation of Platelet Rich Plasma and Bone Marrow Concentrate and their uses in treating...
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Innovations in Orthopedics: Stem Cell and other Orthobiologic treatments and outcomes research for osteoarthritis
We are speaking of stem cell therapy integrated with clinical research, and the resultant evidence-based stem cell intervention. Osteoarthritis is becoming more prevalent as I am seeing younger patients with arthritis as a consequence of sporting injuries such as ACL...
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What are Growth Factors?
In general, a Growth Factor is a term used to describe a protein produced be a variety of different cell types that binds to specific receptors on different cellular surfaces. They may on the one hand stimulate cell growth; on the other hand, some growth factors may...
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Stem cell intervention or another unsatisfactory knee replacement
After reviewing a CT scan of the right knee where a Total Knee Replacement had been done provided by a patient who sought my opinion for stem cell treatment of her arthritic left knee, I called her to discuss the possible reasons that the right Total Knee Replacement...
read moreHow long might a regenerative medicine intervention work
Until 2002, the patient seeking a joint replacement consultation would ask me “how long will new joint last”? Then came the era of minimally invasive surgery -I played a major role in the introduction-and now the question became “how long is the incision?” and “how...
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