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Is There a Bad Back Posture? Do You Have Loss of Curve?
Out of the hundreds of MRI reports I see every year, very few of them have a word written about the state of the low back curve. Despite this, many studies show that losing the normal curve in the low...
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Gymnast Foot Problems: Could It Be Your Back?
At Regenexx, our focus is always treating the whole athlete. One of the unfortunate things that happens in our modern world of orthopedic hyper-specialists is that injured athletes are broken down...
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Rhizotomy Side Effects: Killing Off Important Stabilizers
Radiofrequency ablation or RFA (also known as rhizotomy) has become a mainstay of low back pain treatment in the U.S. and elsewhere. However, what if the list of rhizotomy side effects held a secret...
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Should I Get Back Surgery? Not After Seeing this MRI…
Most patients understand that back surgery is bad news. This is because most know someone first or second hand that has had their back ruined by surgery. However, as a physician, I still get asked the...
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What a Decade of Disc Stem Cell Research Has Taught Us
In 2005, we pioneered disc stem cell research as the first clinic on earth to inject stem cells into low back discs. Along the way, we’ve learned some valuable lessons about what did and didn’t work....
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My Disc Stem Cell Injection Early Christmas Gift
We’ve been injecting stem cells into low back discs longer than anyone else on earth. One of our early patients was a young man named Jacob who I’ve come to know well through the years. After a...
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What Are Important Back Pain Muscles?
If you or a loved one suffers from chronic low back pain and you’ve never heard of the multifidus muscle before, now’s the time to learn about one of the most important back pain muscles. This...
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Chronic Inflammation and Back Pain: New Research May Help You Calm the Fire
A new study gives great insight into inflammation and back pain, and its startling findings may help you manage chronic back pain. Chronic inflammation in the whole body is an oft-ignored problem...
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What is a Flexion-Extension X-ray?
Back and neck pain patients and doctors are often confused by the idea of instability in the spine. From the patient’s standpoint, since they’ve mostly heard about herniated discs and compressed...
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3 Signs It Could Be Your Back Causing Your Knee Pain
Just about everything you think you know about your knee pain is probably wrong. This is because so much of what you hear is based on a surgical and old-school impression of the musculoskeletal...
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Spinal Fusion Is It Worth It? More Research Says No…
A spinal fusion is a surgery that uses hardware and screws to “fix” together two or more vertebrae to make a damaged section of spine immovable. Given that this is a big surgery with many known...
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Sitting and Sciatica Pain: How I Solved It with a Walk
I’ve been at a medical conference lecturing all week, basically a sit fest. Despite trying to exercise every day and get up and move as much as feasible, my intermittent sciatica was singing last...
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Epidural Steroid Injection Reviews: Is There a Better Way?
My patients’ epidural steroid injection reviews through the years have been mixed. On the one hand, the injection can help prevent the need for surgery; on the other, the side effects can be big and...
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Stem Cells for Disc Regeneration?
Across the Internet right now, you can find countless websites advertising stem cells for disc regeneration. Is this for real or is it a scam? A recent patient post on our RIP fusion blog can help...
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How to Read a Low Back MRI Report : What Type of Disc Problem Do You Have?
I find that one of the most confusing things for patients learning how to read a low back MRI report is understanding that there are different types of disc problems that each require a different...
View ArticleRead a Low Back MRI Report in 2 Minutes
One of the things patients ask about is their low back MRI report. There’s considerable anxiety about what the terms mean, and I know, like many physicians, that patients are plugging the terms into...
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Read a Low Back MRI Report in 2 Minutes
How to Read Your Low Back MRI Report for Disc Issues One of the things patients ask about is their low back MRI report. There’s considerable anxiety about what the terms mean, and I know, like many...
View ArticleSitting and Back Pain? Your Disc is Like Silly Putty
Have you ever wondered if it’s just you, or if there really is a known relationship between sitting and back pain? It’s not just you, there’s a very real reason why sitting, particularly prolonged...
View ArticlePain After Back Fusion: Adjacent Segment Disease
Your spine is built for movement, but it also has to be stable. In essence, it’s this duality that confuses many physicians and patients and often leads to a back fusion, which stops movement in...
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Should I Get a Back Fusion? Nope…
Should I Get a Back Fusion? Should I get a back fusion? is a question I hear from patients hundreds of times a year. For most patients, it’s just a bad idea that they will end up regretting. But unlike...
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