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  • What imaging tools are important for a regenerative medicine surgeon?

    Posted in: General Info |Posted on: 21-Feb-2019 | No. of views: 1847

    One of the most important steps in evaluating patients prior to making treatment recommendations is to use some form of imaging to see what the problem is. Along with a thorough history and physical exam, and special tests like blood work or neurologic tests, imaging adds another bit of information to help diagnose the source of the problem. One of my favorite imaging tools is this unique Trice Medical Mi-Ultra tablet. It looks like a tablet but it actually combines an ultrasound machine AND and a disposable in office diagnostic arthroscope! It is the only tablet that allows me to see both inside and outside the joint.

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  • Knee Pain? Let’s put the knee replacement on the “back burner” or forget about it completely!

    Posted in: Knee |Posted on: 19-Feb-2019 | No. of views: 1961

    Our patient has now had 2 good years with minimal knee pain after being told she needed a total knee replacement! All from a single injection of Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) made from her own blood in the office. She now wants the other knee done :). Who wouldn’t!

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  • Why bone marrow concentrate is the best regulatory compliant orthobiologic in the USA

    Posted in: General Info |Posted on: 05-Jan-2019 | No. of views: 1847

    I just gave this lecture at the 2019 Interventional Orthopedics Foundation Annual Meeting. At the Dallas PRP and Stem Cell Institute we only use your own bone marrow as the source for stem cell procedures. Anything out of a bottle is either not legal or a scam so avoid those providers at all costs.

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  • How to find us on Social Media!

    Posted in: General Info |Posted on: 26-Oct-2018 | No. of views: 1997

    My primary interests are sports medicine orthopedics, orthobiologics, and shoulder and knee surgery. Here are some ways to find more content on these topics!

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  • We use bone marrow derived Stem Cells or PRP(platelet rich plasma) for elbow conditions like tennis elbow, golfer’s elbow, ulnar collateral ligament tears

    Posted in: Elbow |Posted on: 23-Oct-2018 | No. of views: 2009

    Here is another example of how we analyze and document every single PRP injection in the office so that we can develop dosing criteria for specific orthopedic applications. Two weeks ago this young baseball athlete had a BMC (bone marrow derived stem cell) injection for a partial ulnar collateral ligament tear.

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  • Listen Don Buford, MD on the latest Regenerative Medicine/Sports Medicine Podcast from Dr. Andrew Dold, MD

    Posted in: General Info |Posted on: 20-Oct-2018 | No. of views: 1927

    My recent Regenerative Medicine podcast with Dr. Andrew Dold is now available! Dr. Dold is an orthopedic surgeon who has a sports medicine podcast just started on iTunes and Soundcloud. The first episode was with well known sports medicine orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Jim Andrews. In this episode 2 Dr. Dold and I talk about the growing use of orthobiologics in sports medicine to help patients recover from injuries with or without surgery. Have a listen! We are always trying to improve upon surgical and nonsurgical outcomes by augmenting our own native healing processes with orthobiologics.

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  • Want to get off of narcotics? Consider Orthobiologics

    Posted in: General Info |Posted on: 19-Oct-2018 | No. of views: 1947

    One of our best options to fight the opioid epidemic (in orthopedics) is with orthobiologics. At the Dallas PRP and Stem Cell Institute we use platelet rich plasma and bone marrow derived stem cells for patients with chronic, painful orthopedic conditions like osteoarthritis.

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  • Fascinating story about Stem Cell Research and Academic Fraud at Harvard University

    Posted in: General Info |Posted on: 15-Oct-2018 | No. of views: 2006

    On October 15, 2018 Gina Kolata of the NY Times published an article detailed Harvard University’s retraction of dozens of articles by cardiologist Dr. Piero Anversara. Dr. Anversa has published about 31 studies detailing how mesenchymal stem cells from bone marrow could be injected to regenerative cardiac (heart) muscle tissue. If true, the scientific find would have been revolutionary as a potential new treatment for patients who suffer heart attacks or other cardiac diseases.

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  • What to do with a degenerative meniscal tear?

    Posted in: Knee |Posted on: 03-Oct-2018 | No. of views: 1945

    30 second example of an obstructive meniscal tear that often continues to cause knee dysfunction despite nonsurgical treatment. The degenerative tears have been shown in multiple studies to get better most of the time without surgery, orthobiologics, or anything more than physical therapy. A meniscus tear diagnosis on a MRI reading is not a reason for any invasive procedure….rest, rehab….time…will allow most patients to return to their “baseline” knee function.

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  • Another reason to avoid any products that don’t come from your own body

    Posted in: General Info |Posted on: 28-Sep-2018 | No. of views: 1998

    On September 28, 2018, the Liveyon company started a product recall of their umbilical cord blood products produced by Genetech in San Diego because of contamination with E. coli. There is no reason to use a riskier allograft orthobiologic when there are more studied, cheaper, safer alternatives that come from our own bodies!

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