StemCell ARTS Blog
Stem Cell Arts Drs. Dade and Wagner named “Top Doctors for 2019”
Stem Cell Arts physicians Rodney Dade, M.D., and Robert Wagner, M.D., have been recognized by Northern Virginia magazine as “Top Doctors for 2019.” Nominated by their peers, Drs. Dade and Wagner were recognized for their outstanding patient care and on-going...
Buyer Beware
A 14-member panel of practicing physicians, scientists and regulatory experts representing some of the nation’s most respected universities and medical centers recently weighed in on the dubious marketing of various birth tissue products as safe and effective "stem...
An Ounce of Prevention Worth a Pound of Cure.
According to the Arthritis Foundation, an estimated 54 million adults have doctor-diagnosed arthritis, with the most common form being osteoarthritis, which affects an estimated 31 million Americans. Many arthritis sufferers are genetically predisposed to getting the...
Too much of a good thing?
Advances in technology have enabled us to see things on MRIs today that we would never have been able to see even 10 years ago. For cancer patients, that can mean the opportunity to seek treatment earlier with better outcomes. But in the field of orthopedics, in some...
Fat Chance
Fat chance—that’s what you are taking if you seek stem cell therapy from some of the so-called doctors and clinics that are offering fat grafts and marketing them as a stem cell procedure. That’s because there is a huge difference between a genuine fat stem cell...
Ageless Wonders
There is no denying that we live in an age-obsessed society. Americans spend an estimated $84 billion annually on products designed to make us look better—and younger. But when it comes to stem cells, younger does not equal better. You’ve probably read some of our...
Knee replacement? Still having knee pain?!? No problem. We can help!
At StemCell ARTS, we often see patients who have had problems associated with knee surgery, such as a torn meniscus needing repair, surgery to correct an ACL injury or a procedure associated with osteoarthritis.
Mom Was Right: Do Your Homework
You may have seen some headlines last month about several people who acquired infections that required hospitalization, infections that were believed to come from stem cell injections they received from umbilical cord blood. This is not the first time that stem cell...
The Current State of Embryonic Stem Cell Therapy
When Regenexx first started using mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) to treat orthopedic problems in 2005, embryonic stem cells (ESCs) were king. However, a funny thing happened in 2010, when the number of research papers published on MSCs equaled the number published on...
Every wonder why stem cells live in your bone marrow?
You have many stem cell types in your body, and StemCell ARTs would like to educate you about the one that lives in your bone marrow and why it lives there and not somewhere else. We’ll do that through a discussion of fish and frogs. Meet the HSC. What Are...
StemCell ARTS is an Affiliate of National Spine and Pain Centers
If the regenerative treatment options offered by StemCell ARTS are not right for you, National Spine and Pain Centers provide more traditional treatments for spine and joint conditions.