Regenexx News
- How Do Various Types of Exercise Impact Your Telomeres? What the Heck Is a Telomere?
In finding your exercise groove, you have lots of options. That includes aerobic exercise, interval training, or lifting weights. Which one is best to counter aging? Let’s dig into a recent high-level study and also learn something about how your genes age. Types of Exercise One of the things you… Read more » - What Does the Length of Recovery after Orthobiologics Say About Your Condition?
One of the things that is critical to understand for any patient getting an Orthobiologic procedure is how fast you recover usually tells us something about your medical condition. In particular, patients that enter into a prolonged recovery may have more issues that spell trouble long-term. Hence, let’s dive into… Read more » - LOL AAOS! You Guys Crack Me Up – More Steroids and Less PRP for Knees!
It’s official, the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons is now officially off its collective rocker. Instead of adding PRP to their knee arthritis treatment guidelines, which would be an evidence-based thing to do in 2021, the AAOS has avoided all evidence and doubled down on the ridiculous practice of injecting… Read more » - Lecturing at the CBP Annual Conference
This weekend I’m in Orlando, Florida lecturing at the annual Chiropractic Biophysics (CBP) conference. Hence, I likely won’t blog these next few days. However, I have referred hundreds of patients to CBP chiropractors over the years. Why? This stuff works. It’s all about restoring the normal curve and shape of… Read more » - Can We Reverse Skeletal Muscle Aging?
One of the aspects of aging is that our muscles get old and weaker much like the skin on our face develops wrinkles. Hence, if we are to find treatments that reverse aging, we need to find a way to get our muscles younger. Let’s dive into a study that… Read more » - 1 in 8 Orthopedic Surgeries Lead to Heart Damage
Sometimes a paper comes along that breaks my brain. This is one of those research studies which is in the form of a position paper published by the American Heart Association. It basically says that some people are getting heart damage during routine surgery. So let’s dig in because when… Read more » - What Is PRGF?
A new treatment called PRGF seems to have become popular this past year with physicians using orthobiologics. What is it? What’s it used for? What’s the evidence behind it? Why should you care? Let’s dig in? What’s the Buzz About? I was recently listening to a number of physicians who… Read more » - ANOTHER Study Shows Fusion Is an Expensive Tip
What if a very invasive spine procedure became common to treat degenerative disease despite a high complication rate and multiple studies showing it was ineffective? This would make little common sense, right? However, that’s what has happened with Lumbar Fusion. Now yet another new study shows it doesn’t work. Let’s… Read more » - The Bench Scientist False Dilemma
Credit: Shutterstock I’ve blogged a few times about the widening rift between a handful of media-savvy bench scientists and physicians who use regenerative medicine techniques to help patients avoid invasive orthopedic surgery. This past few weeks we’ve seen several unscientific things in the news and in bench science blogs about… Read more » - Our Newest Published Paper: Spine Functional Spinal Unit
As you may know, Centeno-Schultz and Regenexx have a fellowship program where young doctors are trained and we also have a clinical research team. As a result, we try to publish 2-4 papers a year and this is our most recent. This one is on using a “functional spinal unit”… Read more »