The American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AAPMR) Annual Assembly kicked off last week on October 11th in Denver, Colorado. The week-long meeting serves as the leading event for continuing medical education in the PM&R field and is the largest...
Do we use embryonic stem cells? Short answer—no. The regenerative procedures we offer at RSI involve only the patient’s own (autologous) cells—harvested from blood or bone marrow—to initiate and expedite the healing process. Stem cells are an extraordinary—if...
By Kevin Towers DPT, OCS, RSI Preferred Rehab Provider I get asked this question a lot. Back pain that is brought on by stepping off a curb or walking down stairs may be an early sign of compression stress to the joints and/or disc(s) in your lumbar spine (lower...
Positive Results Through Two Years of Follow-up New York, NY—April 5, 2017 A clinical study of 49 patients who underwent intradiscal platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections for low back pain found significant improvements in pain and function through two years of...
Patients and referring physicians may wonder about our policy of not participating with Medicare, Medicaid, and other managed care organizations (MCO’s). We feel we owe you an explanation regarding our motivation behind this decision, to clarify understandable...
In light of a recent unfortunate incident involving the use of fat-derived stem cells to treat eye disease, we would like to use this blog post as an opportunity to explain the stem-cell procedures offered at RSI and emphasize the measures our team of physicians takes...
