Ankle Arthritis Pain due to Deltoid Ligament Injury

A doctor discusses treating a deltoid ligament injury and ankle arthritis by injecting the patient's own stem cells.

Deltoid Ligament Injury and Stem Cells: Understanding Biomechanics of the Ankle

SA is 55 yo WF from Washington state who was seen this morning for an ankle problem that began after a climbing fall last year. She had multiple ankle ligament sprains as well as bone chips floating around. After two surgical debridements (last surgery about 10 months ago), she’s not much better. As I have…read more

Stretched Ankle Ligaments and an Unfortunate Woman

My blog this afternoon concerns Lee. If I hadn’t just gotten off the phone with her, I would have never believed this story. We had a phone conference to see if she was a candidate for the Regenexx-C stem cell procedure for non-union of her ankle fusion. I asked her if I could place her…read more

Ankle Pain after an Ankle Joint Replacement

A doctor discusses how replacing a joint just based on how bad it looks on x-ray or MRI can lead to disastrous consequences.

Making the Grade…

Like any procedure, the Regenexx-C procedure works better in some patients than in others.  We have always provided prospective grading of candidacy.  What does this mean?  It means that we obtain basic information about the patient and ask to review films to determine the severity of their disease.  We compare that severity to our clinical…read more

Ankles and Hardware Stores

Great local news story this morning on one of our patients. While we have treated many ankle problems including ligament tears and loss of cartilage, Hal was undeniably the worst.  He had a surgeon attempt a triple arthrodesis (fusing all three main ankle joints) and one of those screws inadvertently blocked an artery that was…read more