ANNOUNCER: Are you living in pain? Is it joint pain or muscle pain? If so, stay tuned. Welcome to Living Pain-Free with Marc Darrow, MD, from the Stem Cell Institute in West Los Angeles. This is the program that can give you effective solutions for the pain you’ve been living with. Dr. Darrow is a medical doctor, board-certified through his studies at UCLA. And Marc Darrow, MD, uses stem cell and platelet-rich plasma to heal your body. He teaches about the use of stem cells, PRP, and prolotherapy. Today’s program could open up a new life without pain for you. To speak with Marc Darrow, MD, call 866-870-KRLA. That’s 866-870-5752. Ask for a copy of Marc Darrow, MD’s book, Stem Cell and Platelet Therapy. Regenerate, Don’t Operate. Now, here’s Marc Darrow, MD.
MARC DARROW, MD: Hello there, ladies and gentlemen. It’s so good to talk to you today. And I am here just like I am every Saturday morning and Saturday afternoon and Saturday evening. And I hope you’ll listen to this show all the time. It’s a great show on how to end your orthopedic musculoskeletal pain, all the syndromes out there. where we take care of by injections with stem cells and PRP. I don’t care if it’s neck, hips, knees, toes, backs, neck, arthritis, you name it. it can be labral tears in the hip or the shoulder, rotator cuff tears, plantar fasciitis, all these wonderful things that we don’t want to have. And instead of doing surgery, we have a way to end your pain by injecting the area and regrowing the tissue. That’s the key. It’s a very conservative, simple, natural treatment. You walk in the door, you have your blood spun, a little blood draw by the nurse, and then we inject you. And then guess what? You get to walk out. You don’t need anesthesia. There’s nothing fancy about it. It’s really simple. I’ve been doing this since my residency at UCLA, where I graduated from that in 19, what was that? 98. I started doing it in 97 during my residency. And, so that’s been, an awful long time, but a lot of fun all the time. I can’t wait to get into the office, see my patients, make them happy. And the paradigm shift is from surgery to regenerative medicine of regrowing the tissue. It’s so simple, it’s so easy, and it’s so safe.
The worst thing we typically see is people get a little bit stiff afterwards, which is part of the inflammatory process. And people say, “Why would you want to give me some inflammation when I’m already inflamed?” the inflammation of the body that causes the pain is not a high enough level to regrow the tissue and start that healing response. So we kick it up just a notch and then that quiets down in about a day and then fibroblasts are drawn to the part of the injury that we inject and they regrow the tissue.
Now we have much greater things than when I started doing this back in the Prolotherapy days where we just believe it or not injected a concentrated sugar water dextrose concentrated dextrose which created inflammation.
Now we have PRP which is platelet-rich plasma where we draw your blood spin it take the platelets out inject those they work much better and I know that because my dog Dakota my husky hit me on the side of the knee and u opened up my knee and I used Prolotherapy to treatment to begin with I did it about 10 times because it would get better and then I’d go sprinting and it would loosen up again then I did PRP one time and it tightened up. Then I did stem cells and it really has been amazing.
I’ve done both my knees, both my elbows, my wrist. Where else have I done? I’ve injected. By the way, this is self injections. I’ve done this all to myself. both my shoulders, and I’ve had other doctors do parts of me I can’t reach. My neck, my back, my ribs. I had some fractured ribs from falling down the stairs one time and as you folks who know me I was a gymnast growing up and that really beat up my body. It felt great at the time but all the little injuries that I thought healed up seemed to have come back as I got older and in my 40s I had a lot of trouble. I had a lot of trouble doing any sport. Then I learned about this during my residency at UCLA and I started self- injecting and I’m good. I am going to go play golf in a few minutes right after the show. I’m going to sprint out of here and get to Mountain Gate Country Club and play nine holes and then I’m going to go running later and I’m good. I’m going to lift some weights. I like to exercise every day as I’m sure all of you do. And for you, if you’re not in great shape, the best exercise may just be taking a half hour walk or something like that’s great. that keeps the blood moving, keeps you loosened up.
Always be active as much as you can. A lot of my patients can’t be very active, but I push them to do whatever they can to stay active. Now, one of the things that we have about these injections is you need to chill a little bit afterwards. the failures are often when people are too active.
Before we get to Douglas who’s waiting on the phone, I just want to give out the phone number to the studio. So you can call me live right now and speak to me. And the phone number to the studio is 866-870-5752. Write it down. 866-870-5752. You can call me if you’re driving, call me from the car. And then if you have questions that I can’t answer on the show, if you want a free phone consult with my staff, they’re at the phones and the phone number to the office where you can call there right now or anytime is 800-300-9300. That’s 800-300-9300. If you want to watch me doing these injections, go to my website, stemcellinstitute.com. stemcellinstitute.com.
There’s tons of videos. There’s a lot of science on there, a lot of research on there. And for anybody contacting us by calling in, calling the office or going to the website, I’m going to give you a free book. It’s a couple hundred page book on stem cell and platelet therapy. It’s called Regenerate Don’t Operate. And the foreword is by Suzanne Somers. It’s a couple hundred pages. It’s got about 250 scientific peer-reviewed studies on how stem cells and PRP work. And unfortunately, how surgeries do not work too well. And I know a lot of you out there listening have had surgeries that have failed. I’m one of those. When I was in med school, I hurt my shoulder weightlifting and I had a surgery by my boss. and it came out terrible. It wasn’t his fault. It’s just what happens. It might be what you call human error. It may be just that surgery is so traumatic.
But I had four years of misery with a frozen shoulder. I couldn’t move it. And, I came home one day with my syringes and experimenting on myself. hopped into bed with my wife who was watching TV and I injected my shoulder with her yelling at me. you like, “What the heck are you doing?” And I woke up the next morning, the very next morning. It was about 12 hours later or so, and my shoulder was completely healed, 100% full range of motion, pain-free. That led me to make this my life work. And regenerative medicine is the love of my life. I love doing these injections. I love my patients and I love watching them heal.
So, we’re going to get to Doug in Las Vegas. Douggee, how are you?
DOUG: I’m doing well. Marc Darrow, MD, how are you?
MARC DARROW, MD: I’m living it up. We’ll have to talk quickly because we have a bunch of callers today. What’s the question you have?
DOUG: I’m an athletic 58-year-old and I’ve recently noticed some tingling in my right hand and my left foot and I’ve heard a lot about stem cell patches and I’ve listened to your show. I was wondering if you thought I might be a candidate for treatment.
MARC DARROW, MD: Yes. I’d have to examine you first. the patches I’m not in big favor of. It’s a great placebo and if it works for you, God bless you. I’ve tried that stuff. I’ve tried all kinds of patches for sleep, for pain, you name it. They don’t do much for me. I love placebo because you can’t hurt anybody with it, but, it’s one of those things that, if you try it and you love it, let me know. I haven’t found any success with it. Most of my patients that have tried it haven’t. So what we have to do is we have to do a good examination. Find out where the where your problem is. If it’s if it’s the neck, you may have some impingement in in the foramina the holes where the nerves come out that go down the arms and in the back. The same thing that go down the legs. But most of the time if people have that, it’s not from a herniated disc. I have herniated discs in my neck and my back. I have no leg or arm pain at all or tingling what we call paresthesias. So we have to be careful and oftentimes what we do if someone even does have a radiculopathy where the nerve is being pinched we can inject the ligaments in the neck or the back and often times stabilize the vertebrae so they’re not moving around much and then the impingement can stop and the irritation can stop. So Doug, that was a great question. and it leads me to one more thing before we get to Jill, which is don’t believe MRIs, don’t believe X-rays, don’t believe CT scans. If they show a fracture, sure, but I have in my office in every room photographs of X-rays of a gentleman, it’s actually a doctor who fractured his his lumbar spine and he has no pain. But if he went to a doctor who is a surgeon, he would have surgery. But he’s smart enough to know not to get the surgery because he’s been injected and his pain is gone. His spine is stabilized. So don’t believe the Oh, Jill Jill just got off. We’re going to wait for her to come back. I hope. she was itchy, I guess. so don’t believe your your images. They may show things. if we image someone’s body, if we did the whole body, we’re going to find all kinds of terrible things, and they’ll say, “I don’t know. I didn’t even know I had it.” So, you don’t get surgery on an image. What we do is we use our hands to find out where the pain is being generated from. And those are the spots that we inject.
We typically use an ultrasound to guide the needle. And that shows us and the patients love it because we have the ultrasound screen right there in front of them and they can actually watch where that needle is going and I can describe exactly what’s going on and they can see the solution going to the actual area where their problem is and it may have nothing to do with their MRI or their X-ray. And we often see people who come in let’s say with left hip pain. Okay. And then I look at their and they say they have arthritis in their left hip and I show them the X-ray that shows that their right hip has much much more arthritis but they don’t have pain there. So don’t get confused by the MRI. Don’t ever let a doctor slap a an image on the on the screen the light box showing where your problem is because that may not be the truth. So be very careful, Doug, and be careful before you get a surgery that you wait it out.
Often vitamin B6, 50 milligrams, can help get rid of these tingling things. So God bless you, Doug. We’re going to go to another caller and I appreciate your call. So, we don’t have a name yet here for the next call.
DOUG: Thank you very much.
MARC DARROW, MD: I’m waiting for the call screener to get the name of this person so I can talk to them. but in the meantime, neck pain is something we treat every day. It’s not a big deal. It’s very simple to do. And I’ve had my neck injected. I am good. I had terrible pain years ago from falling off the high bar. which was from gymnastics. I competed in high school and I did gymnastics in college and actually did it until I was about 40 years old when I had too much pain and I’m good now. So we have Ross calling in from Ventura. Ross, how are you today?
ROSS: I am fine.
MARC DARROW, MD: I love to hear it.
ROSS: I’m sure you didn’t expect this call, but I just wanted to call and thank you so much for the work you did on my Achilles tendonitis. I think it was about three years ago.
MARC DARROW, MD: Yes, I remember.
ROSS: I play golf, and several golfers had Achilles tendinitis and were complaining about it.
MARC DARROW, MD: I’m one of them. I’ve had it too. the nice the nice thing about about the nice thing about my body, Ross, it’s had most of the injuries that my patients come in with. So, when they say, “Do do you ever treat people that have this?” I go, “Yeah, me.” Because I’ve had most of the injuries because I am a crazy athlete. I don’t know why it started. I My earliest memories were just running all over the place. I was that hyperactive kid and I have had so many injuries I can’t even tell you all over my body. Surfing injuries, golf injuries, baseball injuries, gymnastics injuries, running injuries, simple things, weightlifting injuries. And the reason is guys like me, we push it to the limit. And, I have very fast twitch muscles. So, I like to I feel really good when my muscles are stretched to the max. And you’re probably the same way. If you’re a golfer, you do repetitive things. And I love repetitive sports. I love to get in the sand trap for an hour and hit one shot and master it. And you’re probably the same. If you’re a good golfer, you’ve spent hours and hours and hours repeating certain shots, right?
ROSS: Absolutely. It’s just part of the game. If you can’t, it’s part of develop a swing that you can repeat, you’re in trouble in golf.
MARC DARROW, MD: That’s right.
And right now, making adjustments. Right now, I’m driving the ball perfectly right down the middle. I don’t have the distance I used to have when I was young, but I’m still hitting it about, my typical is 230 to 250. once in a while more if there’s a hill and I hit it down. But I have an image I have an image in my mind of where that my back swing goes and it’s it’s this like psychic phenomena to me that it’s just right on. Now I might lose that, right? I’ve had I’ve had different sw Yeah. And it’s a weird thing, but right now, and it’s been for a few months, my drives are perfect. My chipping is not on right now, but I’m going to get to the range before I play today and try to groove that. There’s always a grooving with the golf swing. So, anyway, how long did it take for your Achilles tendonitis to go away when I injected it?
ROSS: I had four treatments and then I went to the physical therapist. He said, based on your information here, you’re healed. He said, all we need to do is break up the adhesions and, you’re good to go. I have never had a problem since.
MARC DARROW, MD: I understand. and I have parts of my body that I injected 27 years ago, my right wrist from a golf. That’s right. It was a golfing injury. I watched a video back in the days we had these I forgot what the type of video was called, but you’d stick it in a little VHS, right? And and it was specifically on how to hit a 3-wood over a tree in front of you to get to the green. And the answer was to hit down on it to get the ball to go up. So, I get out to the golf course and I purposely went behind a tree. I hit down as hard as I could. I never even hit the ball. I hit the ground, hyperextended my wrist and sprained it terribly. ended up with some arthritis there. And then I learned about this and I injected my own wrist and the next day I was 50% better. I self- injected it a couple more times and my wrist has been good for 27 years. And that is to me that’s, it’s miraculous. I can’t call anything a miracle, but to me and my patients, injecting stem cells and PRP is, the next best thing to a miracle. And I’m glad your Achilles has done so well. And I wish a lot of birdies, man. There’s nothing like getting a birdie or an eagle, right? Or a hole in one. Nothing like that.
ROSS: I have one, and I framed it.
MARC DARROW, MD: Wonderful. I’ve had two.
And right now, I’m reaching down. I’m going to put this up to the video camera because I’m being filmed right now. This was, I’m going to read it to you. It says Aahu Country Club fourth hole, hole in one, July 24th, 2011. And, let me see what else it says. 213 yards with a five iron. All right. So, and it the ball is a noodle. You ever play with a noodle ball? They’re kind of soft.
ROSS: I usually find them on the course and I just play them in the ball.
MARC DARROW, MD: Exactly. It says Noodle Plus on it. And I keep this at my at, with me all the time as a reminder of how fun it is to get a hole in one. I had one other one when I was about 16 years old when I didn’t know how to play golf. I went out with a bunch of buddies. we were just screwing around and I sliced the ball into the woods. This was in Michigan. It hit a tree and I was looking around for it. I couldn’t find it. And my buddies went to the green and they were laughing and they said, “Dude, your balls in the hole.” And, I don’t know if you call that a hole in one, do you? Where it bounces off a tree and goes in.
ROSS: Absolutely.
MARC DARROW, MD: So, that was my first.
That was my first. Slice the ball. terrible shot goes in the hole. And that’s the thing I love about golf. There is a lot of serendipity to it. There’s a lot of brain power that goes into there’s a lot of what I’ll call mysticism. And I love a really complex golf course. And if you like Ross, I’ll take you up to my course. It’s one of the hardest on the planet. It’s called Mountaingate for a good reason. It’s in the mountains. It’s up and down. It’s sideways. It’s windy. it’s crazy. And when I step up to the ball, yeah, I love to take you out. When I Now, when I step up to the ball, there’s like 10 calculations I have to do. what’s the elevation? What’s the slope? Is it sideways? what club am I going to hit it high to the hole? Am I hit Am I hit it like a slap shot? What What am I going to do? Am I going to bend the ball to the left, to the right? Is there any wind? I love it. I love that game. People say golf is not a sport. It is the greatest sport ever. And there’s so much intellectual prowess that you need to be a good golfer. These golfers are to me, they’re geniuses. The way they can move the ball around. Well, all I learned. If if you want to meet me there, if you want to if you want to meet me there, get on over there over the show after the show and I’ll we can hang out.
ROSS: I’d love to, but I’m still healing from a shoulder injury and thanks to you and your office, I am getting some stem cell treatment for another injury. I fell on a golf course and tore a rotator cuff muscle and I had had treatments and I was, going to be playing again and darned if I went out on my first day, felt great, hitting the ball well and got into a slippery area with a golf cart. And I’m not, I’m 80 years old, so I’m not an aggressive driver, but the tires would not stop on this incline.
MARC DARROW, MD: I’ve had that, too.
ROSS: As a result, it skidded all the way down to the next cart path and then Oh my god. the little shoulder on the cart path turned the wheel and I turned the cart over and fell on my shoulder again. So, I reopened or didn’t reopen. I created another rotator cuff problem. And so, I’ve got to get finished with that. I have a question I would like to ask.
MARC DARROW, MD: Hang on one second because we’re going to a break in a minute.
I just wanted to give out in case anyone else wants to call in the phone number to the studio is 866-870-5752 866-870-5752 And if you want to get a free phone consult with my staff call the office right now 800-300-9300 800-300-9300 and go to my website stemcellinstitute.com. You can watch me doing these injections on videos and you can ask me a question there. Hey Ross, do me a favor. Stick on with us till after the break. You’ve got a really interesting thing about flipping your golf cart and I want to talk to you more about that.
But stemcellinstitute.com has a spot on every page to email me. I answer all emails every day. Hang with us, folks. We’re going to the break and we’ll be right back. God bless you all. Thank you. You’re listening to Living Pain-Free with Marc Darrow, MD at the Stem Cell Institute in West Los Angeles. To schedule an appointment, call 800-300-9300. That’s 800-300-9300.
MARC DARROW, MD: Marc Darrow, MD here again with Living Pain-Free and the phone number to talk to me live right now at the studio is 866-870-5752. That’s 866-870-5752. It looks like Ross has been patient on the call screen here. So Ross, we’re going to talk to you in just a second. If anyone wants to call my office for a free phone consult, the number to the office is 800-300-9300. That’s 800-300-9300. And if you want to watch me doing these injections to see if it’s something you want to do to see if you want to get healed with stem cells and PRP rather than going under the knife, go to stemcellinstitute.com and every page on stemcellinstitute.com has a spot to email me and I answer all my emails every day. So I’ll get right back to you. And we’re going to go back to Ross and then we have Jenny waiting for us pretty soon. So Ross, you had a really crazy story where the golf cart spun around and you fell. It flipped actually and you fell on your shoulder and you ended up with a rotator cuff tear. And I just wanted to tell people something.
When people get an image like an MRI and it shows a rotator cuff tear, that may have nothing to do with your pain. Nothing. I have a rotator cuff tear in my subscapularis in my right shoulder, my supraspinatus in my right shoulder, and I have a labral tear in my right shoulder. I have zero pain. I can weightlift. I can swing a golf club at 100 miles an hour. I can do push-ups. I can do chin-ups. You name it. My shoulder does not hurt. Do I have those tears? I do, but I have put stem cells in my shoulder and I’ve healed it up. What have I healed up? Who knows?
Doctors don’t know where pain comes from. All we can do is hypothesize. And when a surgeon looks at an MRI and shows a tear, they say you need surgery to fix that. It may not even be the pain generator.
I use my hands to find the spot. I press pretty hard firmly to see where the pain is coming from. It may have nothing to do with that rotator cuff that was found in your shoulder, Ross.
ROSS: I believe you. You’ve already, don’t Yeah, you’ve already repaired my Achilles tendon, so that’s why I’m back for my shoulder, my rotator cuff.
MARC DARROW, MD: We’ll get you there. the thing is we can’t promise anybody anything in medicine.
Even though when I think there’s a really high probability this stuff works with the right patient 80 to 90% of the time. my success that I see with surgery is more like 50% of the time. So I think regenerative medicine with stem cells and platelets has a much higher healing rate. But you got to choose the right people.
Now, I was just reading a study this morning about meniscal tears in the knee. And the study shows that u I think it was three months out after a knee surgery or a fake knee surgery. There’s a doctor that did fake surgeries and real ones to do a study and compare them. And the fake ones, he’d cut the skin but didn’t go inside to do anything. They came out the same as people that had the real surgery. So, why have a real surgery that has can have horrible side effects? Horrible. And a lot of you folks out there listening, you’ve had this done and I’m one of those people with the shoulder surgery that just turned out wrong. So, we have to be careful and be conservative in medicine. If you’re if you’re going to one type of doctor and they all say the same thing, you’ve had second opinions, go to a different type of doctor to get a different type of opinion and what the possibilities are are healing another way for you. It may be acupuncture, it may be massage, it might be physical therapy. There’s a million ways to heal. I don’t care what you do. Be conservative. To me, regenerative medicine is simple injections. You walk in, you get injected, you walk out. That’s pretty conservative. Ross, God bless you, man. I really appreciate the call. We’re gonna go to Jenny in San Diego. Jenny, are you there with us? Jenny, speak up loud. There you go. Thank you so much for calling in. What’s going on? How are you today?
JENNY: I’m great. How are you?
MARC DARROW, MD: I am living it up. I don’t think I’ve ever been happier my whole life. I love being on the radio. I love medicine. I especially love stem cells and PRP. So, it turns me on. That’s all I can tell you. I woke up this morning so excited thinking about the show and all the wonderful people that call in like you. I can tell from your voice already, you’re a great person. What’s going on with you?
JENNY: Thank you. I had a question because I’ve talked with some of my friends about stem cells and yeah, I know that there’s a lot of curiosity, but also people don’t know if it’s right for them. And I just wondered if how would you what would you suggest for someone who’s on the fence and isn’t sure if stem cells are a good fit for them?
MARC DARROW, MD: The best thing is to have an examination. Get a history and examination by someone who does the most of it. I think I probably have done the most of anybody on the planet. I’ve been doing it the longest and I’ve had the most of it done on my body, so I kind of know what the ins and outs are and what the success rates are and what the failure rates are. And
I use my hands to examine so I can find out where the pain is coming from. What I call the pain generator. So you got to get a good examination. An image doesn’t mean much. And I think that’s a good way for a person to start that’s on the fence.
If they’re on the fence, it’s because they don’t have enough information. So they can go to my website which is stemcellinstitute.com or they can call the office and get a free phone consult with my staff. That’s 800-300-9300. The website stemcellinstitute.com also has a spot where they can email me directly and I’ll answer their questions right there. So that’s a good start. Any other questions you have, Jenny?
JENNY: That’s really helpful. That’s a great great way to and maybe even something around their mindset like how because a lot of people have been they go this the regular, medical route with their primary care, their specialists. Yeah. And how do you help?
MARC DARROW, MD: Everybody is different. Everybody’s different because some people are very closed-minded and they’re not going to try anything. they’re going to do what their old-fashioned dinosaur doctor who doesn’t know anything about this tells them. So, the typical medical treatment is get an X-ray, get an MRI, find something that’s broken inside, which means nothing and it may not have anything to do with where pain is being generated. And then the doctor sends them to a surgeon to fix it and that’s all there is in their mind. I have plenty of patients who come in, they go, “I want surgery.” And I go, “Good. Go get it. and the chance are you’ll come back and see me later. Why not try this first? It’s it’s conservative. It’s easy. Makes no sense to me why someone’s going to jump into a surgery unless they have a broken bone or something like that. rotator cuff tears, meniscal tears, labral tears, arthritis. You don’t need surgery for that in most cases. That’s my humble opinion after doing this work for close to 30 years. Anyway, Jenny, I appreciate your call so much. God bless you. We’re gonna go to Milt in the South Bay. Milt, are you there?
MILT: Yes. Hello. Marc Darrow, MD. Yeah. Happy Saturday, Marc Darrow, MD.
MARC DARROW, MD: Speak up for us. Scream at me. Let me Let us all hear you.
MILT: Happy Saturday to you, Marc Darrow, MD. Can you hear me?
MARC DARROW, MD: Yes, I can hear you. Great. Mil. Yeah. It’s a great day. It’s a great beautiful day in California.
MILT: I wanted to check with you. I’ve been following regenerative medicine for many years now and I know it started out with prolotherapy and yes morphed into PRP and now stem cells and and I know it’s only gotten more efficacious over the years. And I was wondering when would somebody want to considering adding stem cells to their PRP?
MARC DARROW, MD: It’s a personal choice.
If it’s my body, I’m going to put everything in there at one time to get the best healing I can get. That’s the most efficacious thing. And okay, it’s it’s often people do what they want to do. They don’t like to listen to doctors as much as they come to a doctor for advice. So people do what they want. I do what they want. I give them the options. But but I always I always say it’s your decision on my body. I’m going to do the whole kit and caboodle at one time because I’ll
I’ll tell you an example. I talked about this a bit on the first half hour. I don’t know if you were there. My dog, my husky dog who was 85 pounds was in the park running and I didn’t see him coming. I was talking to somebody and he hit me on the lateral the outside of my knee and created what’s called the unhappy triad. It was a horrible injury and my knee loosened up immediately. And because it was easier for me, I just did the old prolotherapy first. I still use it once in a while because all I do is grab a bottle of concentrated dextrose and some lidocaine, mix it up and inject it. I don’t need my staff to draw my blood or anything like that. So, I did that. and every time I did it, my knee got better because it is a good treatment. my knee got better, but then when I would start running again, it would loosen up again and my patella, the round bone in the front of the knee, would catch in what’s called the trochlear groove, which is a it’s like an indentation in the femur, the thigh bone, where it slides back and forth when you bend your knee. So, I’d inject it, I’d feel great, I’d go running, it would loosen up. And I did that 10 different times approximately. And at that point, I’m like, well, I’m just going to bite the bullet and do the PRP. So, I had someone in my office draw my blood and then I injected my knee with the PRP. That almost perfected the knee. I was able to sprint, but it wasn’t perfect. And at that point,
I went to stem cells mixed with the PRP and that nailed it down. The knee got absolutely perfect. I haven’t had to inject it really since. And from that injury, I have injured it since. and that’s I’m the guy that keeps injuring myself. it’s not that the treatment didn’t work well. Treatment worked great, but, I have a tendency to be hyperactive in sports. And, you can probably tell from the way I talk fast, I run fast, too. And, when I do I have a chin-up bar in my closet. And when I do chin-ups, I do it with my knees straight and my legs up to my face. It’s called piked. And I learned that when I was a gymnast. We did piked I worked on the rings, like I could do a an iron cross, a piked iron cross with my legs straight up in front of me. I would do Wow. piked giant swings, giant swings and things like that. things that people think they can’t do because they really haven’t tried it. I was nothing special. It’s just that I loved I love ballistic sports and gymnastics was so amazing for me because I could do things that I couldn’t do. what ? I could just pop up into an iron cross and I’m not a huge guy. I’m six feet but I’m only like at the time I was 160 pounds. Now I’m 170. but I was only 160 pounds. But I have a mindset of success whatever I do. And I don’t let my negative thoughts ever stop me. Of course, I have negative thoughts, but I meditate one hour every day. I just finished before the radio show. And I was in complete bliss. Complete bliss. And I bring in all the people that I have issues with that have issues with me. And I just flood them. And I flood myself with love. And I and I know you can you sound like that guy too where you have that thing in your voice where I know you are the person who wants to do the best they can for themsel and other people. And that’s where I’m at. And I think that’s why a lot of my patients heal because I walk the walk about, pain is not going to stop me and pain is temporary. Even with people have terrible syndromes, they always have a chance to heal. But they got to get their mindset in a place of healing instead of being miserable because misery causes depression. in pain causes depression and depression causes pain. You got to break that cycle, . And to me, meditation to me. Yeah.
To me, meditation is the only way to do it. I don’t know another way. I wish there were. It takes me an hour a day to get to that place. And when I mention it to patients, they go, “I tried it. It didn’t work.” Well, they didn’t work it. you’ve got to go to a place in a in a room that’s quiet, the doors locked, the phone is not near you. And so, that you can take off from the body and from your concerns and move to this blissful place. And so, if my patient said, “What’s the most conservative way to heal?” I’d say meditation. Yeah, I know that sounds silly coming from a doctor that does stem cells and PRP, but it’s important to get into the right mindset. And I try to exude that to my patients. because I have some people that come in that, they think their life is over. they’ve had something, they’ve had back pain or, joint pain or something for 50 years and they just don’t think there’s any way out. and some patient of mine who’s gotten better forces them to come see me. So, there’s hope for everybody. I’ve had people with locked up joints, quote bone on bone, where they couldn’t function at all who have gotten better. Their success rate is not going to be as high as someone that has good motion, but it happens. There’s always a possibility of healing in the worst situations.
MILT: That makes a lot of sense. Thank you for answering my question today.
MARC DARROW, MD: Do you have any other questions, Milt?
MARC DARROW, MD: Do you have any pain in your body at this time?
MILT: No. I’m actually in great shape. I’ve had injections in my back from you in the past. I actually had spine surgeries where I actually had a nerve impingement. So that was a case where I had to have the surgery. But after the surgery, I still had pain and I was very tentative with it. I was very, I didn’t want to push it too hard. I was afraid I’d get back to that same horrible place. Yeah. Yeah. But I came in there and you did a series of couple different sets of injections. I know I was very apprehensive and that I wasn’t sure whether it was going to work or not but after the first set of injections, I saw about a 40% reduction in pain. After the next set, the pain completely went away. So, I’m a big believer and as you indicated, getting in the right mind space makes a big difference and you do an absolutely outstanding job helping people get into that. So, I want to thank you so much.
MARC DARROW, MD: That’s amazing. Thank you so much, Milt. And this is something that’s really important you brought up. my work, doing stem cells and platelets is still great after a failed surgery. Okay. So, I have tons and tons of people who come in who’ve had a surgery that didn’t work. We call it failed back syndrome in your case. And there actually is there’s so many failed there’s so many failed back surgeries that insurance companies have a diagnosis code for failed back surgery. That should tell you something.
MILT: It does.
MARC DARROW, MD: People owe it to themselves to try this before they get a surgery. They really do. These surgeries, in my humble opinion from watching this for almost 30 years, they don’t come out so good. Some do, some don’t. Some are a miracle, some are horrific. It’s, are you a gambling person? at least with what I do, there’s no gamble. It’s simple. It’s easy. Walk in, get injected, walk out. So, I love what I do because of that. Yeah.
MILT: It’s always better to do something less invasive, right? to begin with. Regenerative medicine definitely fills that role. Yeah.
MARC DARROW, MD: And the other thing that I want everybody to know Yeah. Other thing, Milt, that I want people to know is what I do is not magic. It’s not like you walk in the door, get an injection, and fly to the moon. It’s not like that. You have to be committed because it may take more than one treatment to get healed. And some people come back after a treatment, they go, “It didn’t work.” And I go, “It worked. It’s not done yet. All we’re doing is injecting cells that grow back tissue. you’ve got to be patient. it’s like when you plant grass seed, how many times do you have to water it before it becomes thick? I don’t know the answer to that. And it’s the same thing with this. I can have someone come up with a simple like an ankle sprain and it should heal with one treatment, but maybe it won’t. And maybe they didn’t listen to me and put a walking boot on because it was inconvenient. And I always say this, Milt, people say, “Well, I don’t want to do all that you’re telling me to do.” And I go, “Look, healing is inconvenient.”
MILT: It is. There’s no way around it.
MARC DARROW, MD: You get people that go, “Well, then I’m going to get a surgery and I’m going to go surgery is really inconvenient. You have no idea what’s going to come up after that one.” And I’m the guy that can tell the story because my shoulder surgery when I was in med school ended up horrific. The surgeon was great. It wasn’t his fault. He just probably nicked a vessel or something. I don’t know what happened. And my arm blew up like a balloon. I had a high fever. I never blamed him. I loved the guy. Yeah. Yeah.
And it took four years for me to heal after that surgery. It was much worse after the surgery than it was before the surgery. And the healing took place by me injecting my own shoulder one time. Next morning, wake up completely pain-free, good range of motion. So, I don’t know how healing works. I’m just grateful I can watch people heal by injecting them with stem cells and PRP. All right, Milt, God bless you, man. You sound like a great guy. I love you. And may you stay healed. May the force be with you.
MILT: God bless you, too, Doctor. Have a wonderful day.
MARC DARROW, MD: You too. Thank you so much for the call. If you want to get a hold of me right now at the studio, the phone number is 866-870-5752. Call me now if you want to get a hold of my staff for a free phone consult with them. They’re at the phones right now at the office at 800-300-9300. The office is 800-300-9300. And my website where you can email me through is stemcellinstitute.com. stemcellinstitute.com and you can watch videos of me doing these procedures and anyone who gets a hold of us gets a free copy of my book. It’s almost 200 pages long. It’s called stem cell and platelet therapy. Regenerate don’t operate. regenerate, meaning let us help you grow the tissue back instead of cutting tissue out. The forward to the book is written by Suzanne Somers, who was one of my greatest proponents. I worked on her. I’ve worked on her husband, Alan Hamel. I’ve worked on her son, Bruce Somers. And I’ve worked on Bruce’s children, Suzanne Somers grandchildren. And I think we’re doing 100% with all of them. I know I’m doing 100% of my body with this stuff and I think it’s something you ought to consider. you owe it to yourself not to have and live in pain and to get back doing the things that make you happy and that you love to do. So, you deserve it. You deserve to get better and you deserve to go outside the box of the traditional medical system, which is to medicate and to operate. And I’m not a believer in either of those things. I get all my patients off their medications. These medications are horrible for people. They’re just absolutely horrible. And I’m sorry we’re going to the break because I have a lot more information for you. But go to the website stemcellinstitute.com. Call my office 800-300-9300. I love you all and I’m so grateful for the work I do and for the healings I see every day. It’s a lot of fun.
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