The Centeno-Schultz Blog

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Amazing! This Is What 20 Million Real Stem Cells Look Like!

This is Dr. Centeno. I’ll be guest blogging at the Centeno-Schultz website for a while due to upgrades we’re making to the Regenexx blog. Right now, I’m down in Grand Cayman at our licensed, advanced culture-expansion site. This morning, while performing a stem cell injection, it occurred to me that the average patient, and just … Continued

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How Effective Is Meniscus Surgery? A Review

The meniscus is a fibrocartilage cushion between the femur and tibia that serves as a shock absorber. Each knee has both a medial and lateral meniscus. Meniscus surgery, like so many other surgeries, have been the go-to, even when there are far better options available. Each meniscus has three distinct parts: anterior horn, posterior horn, … Continued

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Dumb Surgery Alert: Biceps Tenodesis

We’ve added yet another surgery to our dumb-surgeries list here at the clinic. You’d think after all these years, the crazy surgeries patients come to us after having endured wouldn’t still shock us. Unfortunately, however, we still seem to be thinking, They did what to you? a bit too often when these patients are explaining … Continued

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Regenexx Grand Cayman Advanced Cell-Culture Facility Gets an Upgrade

Dr. Centeno is currently on his two-week stint treating some of his patients at the Regenexx Cayman facility (something he does a few times a year), so we thought this would be a good time to update you on this licensed and advanced cell-culture site and its state-of-the-art lab. This summer, the facility moved and … Continued

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Is There a Problem with the Placebo Effect?

In the world of scientific and medical research, the placebo is the foundation of evidence. Used as a measurement against actual treatments and procedures, it has the power to prove and disprove, to support and hinder, to steer medicine in one direction or the other. Study participants’ responses to a placebo is the placebo effect, … Continued

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Got Thumb Pain? PRP Is Superior to Steroids

Thumb pain can be debilitating, compromising one’s ability to perform the easiest of tasks. The pain can be unrelenting at times and compromise the competitive edge we all seek. Let’s review what the thumb joint is and treatment options. Understanding Thumb Anatomy There are five different types of bones in the hand, which is illustrated … Continued

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Learning the Right Way to Squat Protects Your Kneecap

Kneecap pain can be a symptom of a variety of issues (see infographic below—click to enlarge), and one of those is pressure in the quadriceps muscle. Kneecap arthritis can also be caused by many different issues, and one of those is excess pressure on both the quadriceps muscle and the kneecap. One way to reduce … Continued

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5 Things to Know About Low Back Stem Cell Treatment

You don’t have to go far to find a clinic offering stem cell treatments these days (they’re popping up everywhere), and many of them are offering these orthobiologics therapies for the low back. While finding them is easy, determining if these stem cell treatments are legitimate can be very difficult. To help you weed through … Continued

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One Patient’s Story Of Saying No To Knee And Lumbar Surgery

We often see patients seeking a nonsurgical alternative to a lumbar fusion. We also see many patients trying to save their knee and looking for a nonsurgical solution to a knee replacement. Recently, we saw a patient seeking both. After being told she needed bilateral knee replacements, a low-back MRI led her doctor to also … Continued

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Patient Avoids Total Shoulder Replacement Surgery by Using Stem Cells

Total shoulder replacement surgery is a significant surgery with extensive physical therapy with overall recovery taking up to one to two years. There are three major types of shoulder replacements. Let’s review them. Types of Shoulder Replacements Hemiarthroplasty replaces the diseased ball portion of the joint (humeral head, or the top of the upper-arm bone) … Continued

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