An Open Letter to Dr. Oz on Stem Cells for Knee ACL Injuries…

Dr. Oz on Knee ACL Stem Cell Treatments… We like Dr. Oz. He’s a master at educating patients, which strikes near and dear to my heart as someone who also believes that educating patients is the key to helping them recover. However, he recently published a newspaper column where a mother asked about the use…read more

Can a Mucoid ACL be Helped with Stem Cells? What the Heck is that?

A mucoid ACL sounds more like the product of a bad cold than it does a degenerated ligament in the knee. This problem has few surgical solutions, so can it benefit from knee stem cell injections? Joe is a 70 year old man first seen in 2012 for left knee stiffness and pain due to…read more

ACL Surgery Options: A College Football Player Decides to Go Non-surgical and Uses His Own Stem Cells

Are there effective ACL surgery options that are much less invasive? Can you ditch the ACL surgery altogether? BT is a college football player who injured his left ACL two years ago and unlike the other guys on his team, decided to go non-surgical. They all had their ACLs ripped out and replaced surgically, with grafts that…read more

More Regenexx Reviews: One Patient’s Reminder of the Help She Got from the Regenexx-ACL Stem Cell Procedure

A reader asked for more Regenexx reviews and fewer big data downloads. While I love highlighting individual Regenexx reviews and patient outcomes, I also recognize that we’re some of the only providers who transparently publish the data from the hundreds and thousands of patients that we treat. However, this one was so special, I really…read more

ACL Surgery Healing without The Surgery!

A 16 soccer phenom injures her ACL and an MRI shows that it’s shredded. If she gets her knee ACL removed and a new ACL surgically installed, the research says that she’ll likely have significant arthritis by the time she’s 30. In addition, 2/3’rds of patients who have the ACL surgery don’t return to pre-injury…read more

Knee ACL Surgery Alternative: Regenexx-ACL Procedure Gets Great Winter Sports Write-up

We continue to be amazed as physicians by the before and after MRIs we see every day as a result of the knee ACL surgery alternative used by our practice every day: The Regenexx-ACL procedure. This exacting image guided procedure was just written up in a Vermont Winter Sports Paper, just in time for all…read more

Regenexx ACL Stem Cell Procedure Featured in SnoCountry Magazine

We’re seeing excellent results in treating ACLs with an exacting injection of stem cells and helping many patients avoid ACL knee surgery. I’ve blogged on many different before and after MRIs showing imaging evidence of healing in the ACL ligaments without surgery. We’re also putting together a sophisticated imaging analysis of these knee ACL cases…read more

Almost 2 Year Follow-up on Knee Stem Cells for a Physician with Knee Arthritis

I’ve blogged before on AL’s knee arthritis and his experience with knee stem cells. To review, in medical school he had his medial knee meniscus totally removed on both sides and now has severe arthritis and ACL tears. He was told he was a knee replacement candidate, but being a physician, he also knew this likely…read more