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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…