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Shoulder Popping With No Pain: Good News or Bad News?
On this page: The shoulder and its ligaments Is shoulder popping with no pain good or bad? What are the treatment options? So you have shoulder popping with no pain. That’s something to be ignored, right? It certainly seems harmless enough—after all, there’s no pain, just that annoying popping when you move your shoulder this…read more
Pain in the Side of the Hip: What’s Wrong and How to Fix It
I see what this woman is doing in the video all the time at the health club, people rolling out the side of their hip. You’ve probably seen it, too, or, perhaps, you are one of those people. So why are they doing it? It’s not because it’s a new fitness fad; it’s because after…read more
Understanding How Ligaments Repair Themselves After Regenerative Medicine Treatments
I often get asked by patients after a platelet rich plasma (PRP) or stem cell treatment of a damaged ligament what to expect. I also get calls and e-mails from patients not understanding the different phases of healing they’re going through. So this morning I’d like to go over what you can expect and why. Interventional…read more
Athletes with Sports Injuries Don’t Have to Settle for Slow Recovery Times
It’s a typical scene these days. You follow a sports team and want them to make it to the playoffs this year. Then an injury happens to one of their superstar athletes and the team falls apart because the player will miss the rest of the season due to surgery. Is there a better way?…read more
How to Avoid Surgery for Rotator Cuff Tears and Take Gold!
The MRI on the left above shows a complete rotator cuff tear that needs surgery. However, this martial-arts master knew that if he headed that direction, there was a significant chance that the shoulder he depended on to place opponents on the floor, as shown on the right, may never be the same. As a result, he…read more
Watch an Advanced Image-Guided Injection of the Shoulder: Step into Our Procedure Suite with Dr. Schultz
This weekend we had an Interventional Orthopedics Foundation (IOF) course at our Colorado headquarters. What I kept hearing from the physicians attending the course was how much more in depth this course was than any other course they had ever taken. Today I’d like to invite you to join Dr. Schultz as he performs an…read more
Introducing Perc-ACLR
As many of you know, we pioneered the precise injection of a torn ACL with stem cells, but as we’ve published our results and get ready to publish a second paper, the procedure hasn’t been given a specific name. Recently, I was asked by Orthopedics Today to write one side of a “Point-Counter-Point” where I…read more
