Cellular Orthopedics Blog
The foot bone’s connected to the ankle bone
If you remember those children’s song lyrics, you will march right up the skeleton. The orthopedic message is that what’s happening in your foot and ankle will affect the well-being of your knee and hip. I was reminded of the continuum on Tuesday when a patient I had...
Advances in Cellular Orthopedics, Growth Factors
Inflammation is a critical factor in the pain and cartilage breakdown associated with knee and hip osteoarthritis. One mechanism of knee OA progression is a degenerative feed-forward cycle caused by pathological increases in inflammatory cytokines and catabolic...
Why the Stem Cell interventions work for some but not all?
The scientific facts do not support one “stem cell" treatment for all. Osteoarthritis is a complex process and we now know for what there has been recently identified two distinct genetic subgroups. OA is a joint disease with variable causes, symptoms and outcome. It...
Use and Misuse in Regenerative Medicine
I write this Blog as an Orthopedic Surgeon following the 2018 annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, just concluded in New Orleans. The topic matter is of sufficient concern that Use and Abuse of Biologics became an agenda focus receiving...
Is Tissue Regeneration the Holy Grail in Cellular Orthopedics?
The answer is both yes and no; it is age dependent. Received last week from a woman in her late 20s at the time of injury: “Dr. Sheinkop- I wanted to follow-up with you in terms of my success with the stem cell treatment for my full ACL tear in March 2016. I cannot...
What does Dr. Mitchell Sheinkop have in common with Kobe Bryant?
For one, to the best of my knowledge, he doesn’t ski but I did earn a letter as a member of the Roosevelt High, basketball team. No, the common ground is the fact that we both have undergone a similar intervention for osteoarthritis of the knee. Six years or so before...
News from the International Orthopedics Foundation Annual Meeting
I am sitting at my computer this morning writing the weekly Blog posting and not attending the IOF meeting taking place today in Broomfield, Colorado; yet I am reporting about the meeting. Instead of attending, I am preparing for a week-long ski adventure with my...
Consumer Reports Report on Stem Cell Therapy
The March 2018, edition of Consumer Reports includes an article written by Jenseen Interlandi that is worth the read for both what it does say and the questions it raises. I welcome the critical review of Stem Cell Therapy whenever an article appears because I too am...
FDA Compliant Therapies
For those who may have missed it, I was featured Monday night in a Fox 32 news report presented by Fox News investigative reporter Sylvia Perez. http://www.fox32chicago.com/health/customers-warn-that-doctors-are-scamming-patients-with-fake-stem-cell-claims Regular...
True Confessions on Autologous Protein Concentrate
Last week, I disclosed that I myself had undergone an Autologous Protein Concentrate intervention into both of my knees on December 27 and the results to date are remarkable. For those who missed the last Blog, I confessed that I have been experiencing progressive...
Update on the Cellular Orthopedic intervention to my knees
If you read my blog posting last week, you would have learned that I personally underwent a cellular orthopedic intervention to both of my knees on Wednesday, 12/27. The symptoms attributable to my own osteoarthritis had progressed to a degree that I was becoming...
Cellular Orthopedics, looking back and looking forward
Or as Dan Brown's Origin explores, "Where did we come from, where are we going?" It seems customary to make predictions at this time of year; but I want to begin by looking back four decades. It is more than reminiscence. Until managed health care was introduced into...