Cellular Orthopedics Blog
Do’s and Don’ts for the Arthritic Knee
Total Knee Prosthetic sales rose almost 7% in the fourth quarter of 2013. When Wall Street analysts sought to find out why and asked physicians-73% of those surveyed reported that patient behavior had changed during the quarter; 35% attributed the changes in behavior...
Complications of Knee Replacement Compared with Those of Stem Cell Interventions
Last week, an article appeared in the orthopedic peer reviewed literature reporting reasons for failure of Knee Replacement Prosthetic reconstruction within two years of the procedure. It is though such review and publications that we surgeons gain knowledge so as to...
On Stem Cells, Second Opinions and Credentialing
Several months ago, I was reading a scientific article in the orthopedic literature and I realized that much has changed in the field over the four years since I stopped doing joint replacement surgery. Then I wondered how much has changed in the other sub specialties...
Osteoarthritis
Osteoarthritis is essentially joint failure because all structures of the joint undergo pathologic changes. Traditionally, OA was considered to be a disease of articular cartilage, with loss of cartilage considered to be the essential pathologic process for OA. In...
Keeping your joints healthy
Who doesn’t want a joint replacement for arthritis? For one, count me out as long as there are other options for dealing with my symptoms. As you will learn, I was head of a joint replacement program at a major medical center for the last 15 years of my...
On Walking and Stem Cells
We survived another Polar Vortex in Chicago at the end of January and beginning of February with an additional 18 inches of snow. It got so bad two weeks ago, my wife and I took three children, and four grandchildren skiing in Vail for a week. While we were away, it...
Regenerative Cellular Staging
Musculoskeletal Care of the Mature Athlete A 67-year-old man came to my office to learn more about Bone Marrow derived Stem Cells for his arthritic knees. While he had been discouraged by his sports medicine physician from seeking the Regenerative Cellular...
Regenerative Medicine is the Future of Orthopedic Surgery
Previous advances in orthopedic surgery have centered largely on surgical technique and surgical implants. I should know having dedicated almost 40 years of my orthopedic career to developing the cement-less prosthesis and refining the minimally invasive knee and hip...
Are Two Stem Cell Interventions better than one?
There are several reasons behind the subject matter of this Blog. First, recent scientific studies have indicated that 2% of patients who have a joint replacement will have undergone a corrective revision within the first three years. Two percent isn’t a large number...
Looking back at Total Hips and looking forward at Stem Cells
As so many other fans around the world, I watched the Super Bowl this past weekend. While The Seattle defense stifled the Broncos, arguably the best NFL team ever assembled was the 1985 Chicago Bears; and just as any Chicago Bears football fan, I was reminded of the...
On Stem Cells and Visualization
I turned on the radio this morning and the weather report from the Hippy-Dippy Weather Man “ the temperature at O’Hare is minus 4 degrees, the wind chill is minus 25 degrees”. Then came the news “all Chicago Public Schools are closed due to the risk of frostbite”...
On Skiing, Stem Cells, and Total Knee Replacements
If you read this Blog last week, you will know that my wife, our stem cells, and I traveled to Vail, Colorado, for a week of skiing. We arrived to two feet of fresh powder; it continued snowing for two days; and then the sun came out in midweek; and the skies remained...