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Stem Cell Therapy for Knees: The Case For and Against
Does Stem Cell Therapy for Knees Work? Here at the Pain Relief Institute, we’re not shy about proclaiming the benefits of stem cell therapy for a variety of ailments and conditions, and we don’t think we need to be. Our countless success stories give us confidence in the efficacy of our methods. But honesty is …
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Stem Cell Recruitment Therapy for Hand, Wrist, and CMC Arthritis
Does Your Hand or Wrist Hurt? Stem Cell Recruitment Therapy Can Help Many of us suffer from aching hands and/or wrists. Sometimes the pain comes from an injury like one you might sustain in a fall, sports accident, or car crash. Maybe the accident resulted in a triangular fibrocartilage complex (TFCC) tear, damage to the …
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When You Hear Your Shoulder Pop
Why Does Your Shoulder Pop? You may well have heard your shoulder clicking from time to time. If not, you’ve almost certainly heard somebody else’s shoulder cracking. That shoulder pop is a common phenomenon, especially when a person reaches a certain age. You may be vague on exactly why it happens, though. To understand why, …
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Knee Strengthening Exercises
Why Knee Strengthening Exercises Are Important No one can guarantee you’ll never experience knee pain over the course of your life. An impact, possibly sustained during an auto accident or a sports mishap, can produce a knee injury. An illness like osteoarthritis can wear away the cartilage in your knee as you age. If either …
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Knee Extension Lag
What Is Knee Extension Lag? When your leg is in proper working order, you have no difficulty straightening it out completely. People with the condition called knee extension lag, however, can’t do that. When they try, the knee remains partly bent. The severity of the condition is expressed in degrees. If the patient does his …
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The Causes of Knee Pain
Why Do You Have Knee Pain? If you’ve ever had knee pain, you know it can be quite painful indeed and interfere with a great many day-to-day activities to boot. It’s very limiting if you can’t even get up out of a chair and move around without distress. Naturally a knee pain sufferer wants to …
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Stem Cell Therapy for the Medial Collateral Ligament
What is the Medial Collateral Ligament (MCL)? The medial collateral ligament, commonly abbreviated as the MCL, is one of two ligaments connecting the femur to the lower leg bone. In addition to this basic purpose, it supports the knee, allows rotation, and keeps the knee from bending backward. How Does the Medial Collateral Ligament Become …
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Water on the Knee
What is Water on the Knee? Water on the knee is a common term for what doctors know as knee effusion. It’s a particular kind of swollen knee. It happens when you have fluid buildup around the knee. You need a certain amount of fluid in your joints where bones come together. The fluid provides …
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Knee Clicking: What It All Means
Knee Clicking Is Common If you knee keeps popping, it may be some comfort to know you’re not alone. All joints are somewhat prone to cracking and popping, and knee clicking happens the most frequently. Lots of people hear a knee cracking when they go through a full range of motion or squat. Most of …
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Pain and Barometric Pressure
There’s a Connection Between Pain and Barometric Pressure When we’re young, we may be happily oblivious to the link between pain and the weather just as we’re less susceptible to pain in general. But as we get older, we may find that the weather really does affect the degree to which we experience knee pain, …
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