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Regenexx and Connect Healthcare Collaboration Partner
Connect Healthcare Collaboration Picks Regenexx as Solution to Reduce Orthopedic Surgery Costs for Employers Connect Healthcare Collaboration works with consultants, brokers, and employers to reduce unnecessary healthcare spend while improving the outcomes of plan members by identifying and implementing proven strategies, then building the communication and education platform to ensure…
Why We Give Thumb Surgery a Big Thumbs-Down
In today’s world, driven full speed ahead by instant information on demand, even those of us who’ve spent the majority of our lives in the before-smart-devices era can no longer imagine life without them. Unfortunately, with this new way of high-technology living comes an increase in doctor’s visits for issues…
Why Cervical Disc Replacement Is No Better than a Fusion
Is it better to surgically remove a cervical disc and replace it with a fake one or surgically remove a cervical disc and bolt together the vertebrae above and below it to fuse it into one solid piece of bone? The former (the cervical disc replacement), while also highly invasive,…
Are Core Strength and Knee Arthritis Related?
Core strength and knee arthritis are related? The answer is “Oh, why Yes!” Let me explain. Remember the famous childhood “Dem Bones” song? “The knee bone’s connected to the thigh bone. The thigh bone’s connected to the hip bone…The hip bone’s connected to the back bone…” This has been a…
Another Reason to Say No to Meniscus Surgery: Knee Arthritis
Orthopedic surgeons perform about 700,000 knee meniscus surgeries every year in the United States, making it the most-performed knee procedure in the country. So you’d think there must be an abundance of research showing this procedure works. Unfortunately, this is not the case; in fact, study after study has shown…