Cellular Orthopedics Blog
Understanding the Power of Fat (SVF) for Your Orthopaedic Issue
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...
What is the role of Regenerative Medicine?
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...
Evidence Based Cellular Orthopedics and Stem Cells for Osteoarthritis
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...
A Stem Cell Orthopedic Update
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...
The Stem Cell Town Crier
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...
Let’s Explore Stem Cells and Shoulders
50 years ago, the treatment of choice for the rotator cuff tear was observation and physical therapy. The results were very unsatisfactory to the patient and physician. At the same time, historic attempts at surgical reconstruction were doomed to fail. The same was...
A Stem Cell Patient Anecdote and More on Cellular Orthopedics
Patient Success | OrthoBiologics “So yesterday when Dr. S was in the room and did a kind of magic spell thing about everything working out, I had to report this. First of all, my shoulders are feeling pretty good, but you know I was pretty unhappy that after a month...
National Walk Day or Go Take a Hike, Courtesy of Regenerative Medicine
National Walking Day every year is on the first Wednesday in April; this year it falls on the 6th. Plan to go take a hike and more, but don’t stop there. According to The National Today website, "walking for thirty to sixty minutes per day may sound like it isn’t...
When it comes to Stem Cells and Biologics; Watch, Wait and See
First, it was a preliminary follow-up, then came a minimum of one to two years. Now it is five years and more with some outcomes at eight years. I am able to provide informed consent to my patients presenting with symptomatic and function limiting major joint...
How do Stem Cells Work in Regenerating an Arthritic Joint
The cellular, biologic, therapeutic approach using your stem cells may be directed either directly or via the Extracellular Vesicles produced by those stem cells acting via microRNAs. Bone Marrow contains Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSCs) in addition to Platelets and...
Does Doing Your Own Stem Cell Research Online Make You Smarter Than Doctors and Scientists?
Biologics including Adult Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSCs), Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP), Structural Acellular Collagen Allograft, and Conditioned Media (Autologous Exosomes) are under investigation for regenerative purposes and as a means of postponing, perhaps avoiding a...
Mesenchymal Cell-Based Therapy for Cartilage Regeneration in Knee Osteoarthritis
For those of you afflicted with the symptoms and limitations imposed by osteoarthritis, the question most frequently asked at the time of a consultation: “Will this treatment regenerate my cartilage?” The most commonly affected joint is the knee characterized by...