The Regenexx Procedure seems almost too easy to be true.
After a necessarily frank review of the orthopedic condition and the patient's health, the patient comes in and has local anesthesia applied via X-ray guidance for a bone marrow draw from the hip. In a Westminster lab, the stem cells are separated from the rest of the draw (about one in 10,000 or 50,000 cells is a mesenchymal stem cell that can generate the needed connective tissue) and then amplified to provide 10 or 100 times more stem cells for injection.
The patients come in about a month later and the stem cells are injected into th...