Blog Archive From The Centeno-Schultz Clinic

Walking the Walk in Grand Cayman

Like all physicians at the Centeno-Schultz Clinic, I have the opportunity to rotate down to the Grand Cayman Clinic three times a year. The Regenexx Cayman Clinic is unique in that it affords the physician the ability to use culture-expanded stem cells in addition to platelet and same-day stem cell treatments. Culture-expanded stem cell treatments … Continued

Cervical Joint Degeneration Dramatically Improves After Stem Cell Treatment

We spend a lot of time looking at MRIs both before and after stem cell treatments. We’ve seen some fascinating improvements that exceed expectations, some MRIs that really didn’t change much, and everything in between. Today, we’re going to review a truly dramatic improvement seen on the MRI of a patient who had a cervical … Continued

Five Things You Need to Know About the Perc-ACLR Procedure

Another day at Centeno-Schultz Clinic, and yet another MRI of a patient’s ACL that was destined for surgery…before the patient made his way to us. Thanks to our perc-ACLR procedure, an ultraprecise image-guided stem cell injection, his damaged ACL is healing. And it was accomplished without having to cut out this critical ligament, in fact, … Continued

Keep Your Good Gut Bacteria Happy with Regular Exercise

It’s unlikely this is the first time you’re reading about the “good” gut bacteria; it’s probably been the hottest topic in health and medicine over the past few years. Why? More and more studies are linking so much of our health and so many diseases to the condition of our microbiome (our gut environment). So … Continued

Boost Your Brain with Just 10 Minutes of Exercise

We’ve all experienced it—that midday drag when our tired, overloaded brain just shuts down. With deadlines, no doubt, looming and beating our head against our desk and chasing it with yet another cup of Joe doing nothing to jumpstart our brain back to life, it can send us into a bit of a panic. But … Continued

Improve Your Aging Immune System with Exercise

It can be challenging to work up the motivation to exercise. It may sound cliché, but for most of us, the more persistent and consistent we are with an exercise routine, the more we look forward to exercising and how good it makes us feel. There will always be those days, however, that you just … Continued

Can Exercise Turn Back Our Genetic Clock?

What if there was something you could do to slow aging? We’re not talking about artificially, a nip here a tuck there, but genetically slow the aging process? There’s one thing that consistently hits our radar in that proverbial Fountain of Youth search that has seemed so important not only in today’s world but throughout … Continued

What Exercising as You Age Does for Your Muscles

Today we’re covering the fourth topic in our April exercise series: how exercise affects our muscles as we age. We know exercise is good for our muscles, but one study goes a bit deeper into its muscle benefits and looks at how exercise affects our muscles at the cellular level, possibly even slowing the aging … Continued

Is Exercise Better than NSAIDs for Knee Arthritis Pain?

America, as a whole, loves its nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). The tiniest ache or pain can send many running to their medicine cabinet for an NSAID to attempt to control that small pain before it gets worse. We see patients not only taking them to relieve pain but to prevent it before it even occurs, … Continued

Can Exercise Help Cartilage in Patellofemoral Syndrome?

Exercise is good for so many things, but one of the questions we often get from our patients with musculoskeletal conditions is, Can I still exercise? In most cases, the answer is yes, and, in fact, in many cases, exercise may actually improve or relieve your condition. Patellofemoral syndrome or arthritis in the patellofemoral compartment … Continued

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