Posts Tagged ‘canada’

New Study from Canada suggests ultrasound guided hip injections are effective

Friday, March 26th, 2010

54 patients were treated with hip/buttock pain requiring a diagnosis of gluteal tendinosis (a chronic tendon injury rather than an acute injury tendinitis). The study from the American Journal of Roentgenology demonstrated seventy percent of patients were satisfied with the results of the intervention which included a ultrasound guided cortisone injection. Typically these injections are done blind without image guidance. However the physician may miss the target site and may simply be injecting fatty tissue or the incorrect muscle or tendon causing further damage or discomfort by hitting painful structures like bone or nerve. If patients have great relief from this guided cortisone injection, the proper disgnosis is determined & the patient may be a candidate for other injectables which may be less damaging like PRP or Traumeel etc.Amer journal roent

Dr Steven Sampson travels to Canada to explore breakthrough Stem Cell technology

Monday, August 31st, 2009

In an effort to provide the most powerful natural based healing options to demanding patients, I travelled to Canada to met with researchers who are developing technology that may take the standards of PRP therapy to another level!  After being contacted by a group of researchers, I agreed to visit their clinic & lab to investigate their findings.  We will begin trials of this technology in my office at the Orthohealing Center in Los Angeles innext couple of weeks.  This technique apparently can regenerate bone and most likely cartilage at a much more potent rate than platelet Rich Plasma. While Platelet Rich Plasma has inspired me to immerse myself in the field of orthobiologics, there are some limitations.  For example tendon studies have shown most but not all patients responded favorably.  This most likely results from mosampson PRP labre complicated cases as well as from reasons we don’t quite understand yet.  Therefore we are striving to incorporate the most state of the art technology to encourage the body’s ability to self heal. While it’s great that many doctors are beginning to explore with PRP therapy to promote it’s widespread use, after 3 years and hundreds of injections performed we are loking further.