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At the Centeno-Schultz Clinic, we acknowledge that headache pain can be disabling. It can rob you of your ability to engage in and love life and render you incapable of completing the easiest of tasks. Headaches can arise from a number of stimuli, which include but are not limited to…

Continuing in our “Let’s Talk Stem Cells” series, today we’re covering part 2 in which we’ll explain how your stem cells deactivate bad cells. In particular, we are going to look at macrophage and microglial cells, our body’s clean-up crew. Unfortunately, sometimes these clean-freak cells can go rogue and attack…

Most people really don’t understand how stem cells work or what it is they do exactly. So over the next couple of weeks, we’re going to dedicate some time to just talking stem cells because there’s so much to cover. Each topic also has an accompanying video, so be sure…

Along with cartilage degeneration that occurs in arthritis, an MRI of the knee may also show a bone marrow lesion (BML). In recent years, injecting bone cement into these BMLs (a new procedure called a subchondroplasty) in arthritic knees has become a trend. While we’ve seen favorable outcomes reported on…

My last blog discussed the AC (acromioclavicular) joint and why it might be contributing to your neck pain. This time I’m setting my sites on elective shoulder surgery. The AC joint can also undergo surgery if thought to be contributing to the impingement of the rotator cuff. The surgery is…