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How long do stem cell treatments last?

When a patient comes into our office and we have made a realistic determination that they are a bone marrow derived stem cell candidate, the patient will often ask, “How long does the treatment last?” Most times I will have a good idea why they are asking the question. The reason is because nothing they have tried up until this point has been a long-lasting success for them. In going over a hip or knee osteoarthritis patient’s history for example, we will discover a medical history filled with treatments that in many instances did provide short-term benefit. You have probably

Complicated fusion surgery can be avoided if we look at the spinal ligaments

Marc Darrow, MD, JD. In our practice we often see patients who are in severe back pain. Many have already been recommended to some type of fusion surgery. Their fusion surgery recommendation may be based on pain and it may be based on an MRI image that while showing degenerative changes in the spine, may not be showing what is the cause of the person’s pain. These people have an MRI, X-ray and/or scan that may show an inaccurate picture of what is causing their pain. What do I mean by inaccurate picture? The MRI cannot show muscle spasms from

Common golf hand and wrist injuries

Marc Darrow, MD, JD. Most golfers will try to play through a developing, worsening chronic pain. They will do so with wrist braces of varying types, hand wraps, anti-inflammatory medications, alterations to their grip and swings. A trip to their doctor will likely get them some stronger pain relivers and anti-inflammatories and a recommendation to a physical therapist. Some golfers may insist on a cortisone injection, such is their desire to return to play and resume normal pain-free daily activities. Eventually however all these remedies will not help keep them on the course and golf becomes one of those things

Pain from Failed Hip Arthroscopic Surgery

Marc Darrow, MD, JD. Often we will hear from people who have had a hip arthroscopic surgery who have continued pain following the procedure. These people are now in a situation where they have to decide on three different courses of action. Redo the surgery, find other treatment options, or just manage the pain and live with it. Many orthopedist surgeons will try to find ways to address these patient’s concerns without immediately going back to hip surgery. What is causing the post-surgical pain? According to some surgeons, the pain can be coming from sources that were present before the

Femoroacetabular Impingement Syndrome treatments

Marc Darrow, MD, JD. Many people contact me with problems of a confusion in their hip or low back diagnosis. They have confusion because they have had low back pain coupled with hip pain and after a long time trying to determine what was the cause of their pain, their doctors came back with a diagnosis of Femoroacetabular Impingement (FAI) or more simply a hip impingement. They were then told that they have a condition where the ball and the socket of the hip were rubbing against each other in a non-anatomically correct way and that this was causing friction

Lumbar adjacent segment disease

Many people who reach out to our office write to us after they have undergone a spinal surgical procedure with less than hoped for results. They write us about their continued pain and are looking for help. These people now realize the complexities of spinal surgery, especially in patients with numerous procedures. Some have been offered another surgery others not because they and their doctors have agreed that further surgery would likely do no good. Therefore another treatment or pain management program would need to be put in place. Following failed back surgery the patient may be sent to physical

How long do stem cell treatments last?

Complicated fusion surgery can be avoided if we look at the spinal ligaments

Common golf hand and wrist injuries

Pain from Failed Hip Arthroscopic Surgery

Femoroacetabular Impingement Syndrome treatments

Lumbar adjacent segment disease

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