by Regenexx Des Moines | Jan 7, 2016 | arthritis, diabetes, pharmaceuticals, Uncategorized |
Diabetes and osteoarthritis have long been bedfellows. Statistically, people who have been diagnosed with diabetes have twice the likelihood of developing osteoarthritis. The FDA recently issued an urgent warning that diabetics taking a whole class of diabetic...
by Regenexx Des Moines | Jan 7, 2016 | amniotic, stem cells, Uncategorized |
One of the most pervasive scams sweeping the nation today involves “amniotic stem-cell therapy.” Aggressive entrepreneurs are selling doctors what they claim are frozen vials of amniotic stem cells. In actuality, the vials contain dead tissue. Amniotic fluid comes...
by Regenexx Des Moines | Dec 10, 2015 | arthritis, nerves, structural model of pain, surgery, Uncategorized |
Yet another study proves—yet again—that osteoarthritis pain is not related to structure. At issue here is the orthopedic paradigm that pain is related to structure; that MRI findings like meniscus tears and cartilage damage associated with osteoarthritis are the cause...
by Regenexx Des Moines | Dec 10, 2015 | hip, hip labrum, structural model of pain, surgery, Uncategorized |
The concept that hip labrum tears cause pain is relatively new in medicine. Despite that, the number of arthroscopic hip surgeries to treat hip labrum tears and impingement have exploded in the past five years. Have physicians become too zealous? A patient I evaluated...
by Regenexx Des Moines | Dec 10, 2015 | back, surgery, Uncategorized |
A patient recently reported to her Regenexx doctor that she had spoken to people at a clinic called “North American Spine” and had been told that there was zero percent chance of her getting worse after a minimally invasive surgical procedure. That the clinic refused...
by Regenexx Des Moines | Dec 10, 2015 | hip, replacement, surgery, Uncategorized |
Beginning in the 1970s, doctors started putting all sorts of stuff into our bodies—pacemakers, valves, stents, artificial joints, etc. These were hailed as modern medical miracles when they first appeared on the scene, but what if the stuff they were made of is toxic...
