Running With Knee and Hip Osteoarthritis
Conventional wisdom has been that running is bad for your knees and hips, and that patients with knee and hip osteoarthritis should refrain from running and switch their activity program to other forms of low impact exercise. That conventional wisdom has recently being challenged by several medical studies that have found that running not only doesn’t increase your risk […]
Can Fat affect Your Joint Pain?
Visceral fat, or abdominal fat is a key factor that triggers off a variety of health and joint problems. Excessive belly fat results in more weight acting on the joints which strains and hurts the back, knees or hips. Besides this increased mechanical stress on the joints, belly fat also increases the risk of chronic inflammation in the body. This […]
Back in Competition After Stem Cell Therapy
Wanda O is a competitive triathlete who had to stop training due to knee pain. I’ll let her tell her own story: “ I’ve been a triathlete since 2008 and I’ve done over 23 triathlons including a half-ironman. For the last three years, my left knee has been giving me a lot of trouble and pain to the point of […]
I Have Knee Pain and A Torn Meniscus…Now What?
This is a frequent occurrence in any clinic treating patients with knee pain: A middle aged patient develops pain in a knee. Patient goes to an orthopedic surgeon who orders an MRI scan of that knee. MRI scan gets done and it shows a tear in a meniscus. (The meniscus is a C-shaped piece of cartilage located inside the knee […]
Does Estrogen Maintain Stem Cells?
We have stem cells in all our tissues. Stem cells, cells with the capacity to differentiate into a variety of other cells and replicate, are necessary in order to repair tissue as it suffers daily damage. Without stem cells, tissue repair in our bodies wouldn’t be possible, and we wouldn’t be able to stay alive for long. A decline in […]