Cellular Orthopedics Blog
Surgery, Stem cells or Physical therapy for a Meniscal Tear and Osteoarthritis
“Whether arthroscopic partial meniscectomy for symptomatic patients with a meniscal tear and osteoarthritis results in better functional outcomes than physical therapy alone is uncertain.” The above article appeared in the May, 2013 edition of the New England Journal...
Continued Growth and Development in the Stem Cell World
There are now available six month follow up Outcomes Data regarding 20 patients who underwent a fat graft harvest, micro-fracture of the fat graft and intervention in an arthritic knee, the latter so severe that the original recommendation to the patient had been a...
Announcing an Amniotic Fluid Clinical Trial
As the regular readers of this Blog are aware, one way to catch my attention is to send me another announcement found in a local newspaper regarding “free” Amniotic Fluid Concentrate seminars in which the reader (victim) then learns at the seminar that he or she can...
The explosive growth of Stem Cell interest in my practice
For those new to this Blog, my focus on Regenerative Medicine has just started its fifth year. Prior to that time, I was an orthopedic surgeon surgically replacing hips and knees at a major academic Chicago Medical center for almost 40 years. I then graduated into...
The difference between an orthopedic surgeon and the camp followers
From the AMA News, July 1 Good Morning Dr. Mitchell Sheinkop. Here are today's top stories. Leading the News: Unproven stem cell therapies available at hundreds of US clinics In “Science Now,” the Los Angeles Times (6/30, Kaplan) reports that research...
When it comes to Orthobiologics, what’s in and what’s out
Out is routine Medicare and insurance coverage indemnification of hyaluronic acid injections for osteoarthritic joints other than the knee. Additionally, several insurance carriers are now requiring pre-certification to determine if they will even cover hyaluronic...
“Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master”
This past Thursday, I was reading the Steve Chapman article in the Chicago Tribune and in the article, he quoted French Sociologist Gustav Le Bon who is best known for his 1895 work The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind. While Chapman was trying to explain the Trump...
Knee Study Patient Provides an Update
Hello Dr. Sheinkop, I wanted to let you know that my knee is feeling much better. I have been able to start exercising again, as well as play some basketball. It is a little sore afterwards and there's sometimes pain when I jump my hardest, but it is still an...
Knee improvement update from stem cell study patient
Hello Dr. Sheinkop, I wanted to let you know that my knee is feeling much better. I have been able to start exercising again, as well as play some basketball. It is a little sore afterwards and there's sometimes pain when I jump my hardest, but it is still an...
The Place for Preemptive Bone Marrow Concentrate, Growth Factor Concentrate and Stem Cells
Just as I hope to improve patient activity with delivery of Bone Marrow Concentrate (BMC), Stem Cells and Concentrated Growth Factor for grades 2 and 3 osteoarthritis, might the success of a surgical procedure at the time of the initial trauma be significantly...
Subchondroplasty Revisited
In the late summer of 2015, I was featured on a Fox cable news segment featuring a patient on whom I had performed a Bone Marrow Aspirate Concentrate –Stem Cell intervention coupled with a subchondroplasty procedure. The patient had experienced a poor result from a...
“Exercise linked to reduced risk of several cancers”
From the AMA Morning Rounds May 16, 2016 Today’s Medical News Prepared Exclusively for You Leading News “Exercise linked to reduced risk of several cancers" ABC World News Tonight (5/16, story 11, 0:25, Muir) reported, “The National Cancer Institute confirms that...