by Regenexx Des Moines | Jun 2, 2016 | spinal fusion, spine, stem cells, surgery, Uncategorized |
Low back pain is a common and debilitating condition from which many patients receive little relief. In the United States, low back pain results in medical expenses and lost wages in excess of $200 billion each year. A strong case for using stem-cell therapies to...
by Regenexx Des Moines | May 24, 2016 | knee, Regenexx SD+, stem cells, surgery, Uncategorized |
Dave, a retired farmer who still helps his brother-in-law farm and drives his own semi truck, was experiencing a lot of pain in both knees. After his stem cell procedure, Dave has gone from an eight to a one on the pain scale, and he’s able to climb in and out...
by Regenexx Des Moines | Feb 9, 2016 | Regenexx, shoulder, stem cells, supraspinatus, Uncategorized |
Multiple clinical trials currently are underway at Regenexx, with the aim of critically examining techniques and sharing regenerative medicine outcomes with the scientific community. One of these trials is aimed at evaluating the success of injections of bone-marrow...
by Regenexx Des Moines | Feb 2, 2016 | interventional orthopedics, knee, meniscus, Regenexx, Regenexx SD+, stem cells, Uncategorized |
The term “iron man” can call to mind either the classic character made popular in comic books and the movies or a super-fit person who rides, swims, and runs for hours on end. Michelle is the latter. Like many of us, she loves to run and ride her bike. A meniscus...
by Regenexx Des Moines | Jan 11, 2016 | Regenexx, stem cells, Uncategorized |
Dose is a key issue in medicine, yet for same-day stem-cell treatments nobody seems to know the correct dose nor have a way to measure it so that it can be adjusted to help patients. A newly published Regenexx research paper begins to answer some of these critical...
by Regenexx Des Moines | Jan 11, 2016 | arthritis, growth factors, stem cells, Uncategorized |
Patients often are led to believe that a stem-cell injection used to treat moderate to severe knee osteoarthritis has the expectation of growing large amounts of new cartilage. This usually is not the case, but despite this many patients get prolonged relief. To...
