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Welcome to Our Lab: Let’s Talk About CFUs
Today we’re inviting you into our lab here at the clinic so you can learn a little bit about CFUs and what we do with them. CFU means colony-forming units, and you’ve likely seen “CFU” before, either in news articles or while surfing the Web as it makes the rounds…
Always Tightening Up Your ITB? You Could Have a Back Problem
Back pain and a tight ITB often go hand in hand…at least that’s our experience with about two-thirds of the patients we examine with back pain. In these cases, we find it best to treat not just the back problem but also the ITB. Why? Addressing both areas can significantly…
More Sleep May Ease Fibromyalgia Pain
Fibromyalgia is a generalized pain disorder, and we see and treat many patients in the clinic with this oftentimes quite debilitating disease. While our regenerative medicine techniques can be very helpful, one study also suggests there may be something else patients can do in addition to help relieve some of…
Radiofrequency Ablation: Why We Don’t Perform This Destructive Procedure
In interventional orthopedics, our focus is on regenerative medicine. Therefore, we seek to preserve and regenerate structures, not destroy them. That in a nutshell is why we eighty-sixed RFA many years ago. With the advanced technologies and orthobiologics solutions available to treat patients today, RFA should be confined to our…
Hip Resurfacing Has Problems of Its Own
Hip resurfacing may sound like a kinder, gentler alternative to hip replacement, but is it? There may be fewer steps to the surgery, but it is still highly invasive and, according to research, is riddled with many serious problems of its own. Today we’re going to define the difference between…