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Do I Need Back Surgery Quiz
Low back pain can be disabling and erode your quality of life. What are the common causes of low back pain? What is lumbar fusion? Is lumbar fusion effective? Is there a “Do I need back surgery quiz?” to help navigate this issue? Let’s dig in. Do I Need Back…
The Aging Athlete Series: Ep 3 – The Core Before Everything
This is my weekly “Aging Athlete Series” tip. This series is for people in their 30’s and up who want to stay active as they age. Those who want to be that guy or gal who is in their 70’s or 80’s who are still doing cool active stuff. This…
Success Rate of Stem Cell Therapy for Hips?
What’s the success rate of stem cell therapy for hips? You would be surprised that while we can help many problems with orthobiologics, there are some hip problems that can’t be helped. So let’s dig in to make sure you don’t get scammed. What Can Go Wrong in the Hips…
The Aging Athlete: Taking Some of My Own Medicine-Episode 2
I needed some ProActive injections done, so this is a dose of my own medicine. This is part of the ProActive approach I discussed last week (from the book). So the first tip is to fix small problems while they’re small. You can see in the video what I had…
Let’s Break it Again: Stem Cell Therapy for Broken Bones
Stem Cell Therapy for Broken Bones – That’s a Thing? Fractures of the long bones occur commonly and include the humerus, radius, ulna, femur, tibia, and fibula. Often times they require surgery with insertion of rods or plates. Unfortunately despite patients’ and surgeons’ best efforts, oftentimes these fractures fail to…