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Choosing Legitimate Stem Cell Clinics: What You Need To Know

How do you tell the legitimate stem cell clinics from the bad actors? I take for granted that since I’ve been performing orthopedic stem cell procedures since 2005 and since I was one of the first doctors on earth to do many of these procedures, that I can easily look at a website and tell the … Continued

Upcoming Spine or Orthopedic Surgery? Did the Hospital Sterilize Instruments?

Spine and orthopedic surgery is associated with multiple risks which include bleeding, infection, failure and escalation in pain. Infection can be devastating requiring removal of an implant and repeat surgery. Infection can also spread throughout the body with life threatening sepsis and serious infections such as hepatitis B, meningitis and HIV. Sterilization of surgical instruments … Continued

Consequences of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery

Spine surgery has lasting consequences, as it forever changes the lumbar anatomy and biomechanics. It’s not like a bad haircut which will grow out over time. The anatomical changes are permanent. The consequences of minimally invasive spine surgery are truly something to talk about directly. We have all seen the ads where a patient who … Continued

Reducing Your Risk Of Cardiovascular Disease

Did you know there are 7 basic things that you can do to prevent or reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease? Dr Pitts, our nutrition expert, breaks this all down for you in this new addition to his "Nutrition and Healthy Lifestyle Series"

Curcumin vs Diclofenac for the Management of Knee Osteoarthritis Pain

Knee pain can be disabling compromising quality of life and one’s ability to hike, run or ski. And it takes something as simple as curcumin to help with it. Traditional treatment options include ice, rest and oral NSAID’s such as Alleve, Motrin and Diclofenac. Significant side effects associated NSAID include: Are there safe alternatives? Meet … Continued

Watch Dr. Pitts Perform a Disc Treatment Using Stem Cells

Today, we invite you into one of our interventional orthopedics procedure suites. Dr. Pitts will be performing an advanced image-guided stem cell injection into an L4–5 disc to treat a patient with an annular tear and low back pain. Watch the video below, and you can also review terminology and equipment in this post below … Continued

Cervical Fusion for Left Occipital Pain? No Joke

Some proposed surgeries are extreme and make little sense. For example, cervical fusion from the base of the skull to the lower cervical vertebrae. Patients lives are forever changed with devastating and oftentimes tragic consequences. This week in clinic, I was completely taken off guard and stunned by a proposed neck surgery by a local … Continued

Athlete Opts for Stem Cell Procedure to Avoid ACL Surgery

Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears are devastating injuries impacting one’s function, level of activity, and confidence. ACL surgery, to address those tears, is fraught with multiple issues, including the following: There is an increased incidence of knee arthritis in teens by the time they are in their thirties. The native ACL with two bundles is … Continued

Tony’s ProActive Story: The Secret to Highly Active Aging

Tony is perhaps one of our most inspiring ongoing treatment success stories. Tony first came to us a few years ago with a shoulder injury he got “on the rings” (we’ll explain in a moment). Tony has continued to come to us regularly with minor issues he wants us to address before they become great … Continued

Let’s Talk About Candidacy Grading for Stem Cell Treatment

There are so many differences between real interventional orthopedic clinics offering stem cell treatments and those other clinics, such as the chiropractic clinics, that push amniotic stem cells, which we know are just scams. One of those major differences is candidacy grading for stem cell treatment, which we’re going to talk about today. What Is … Continued

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