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Arthritis: Everything You Always Wanted to Know and Were Afraid to Ask

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Arthritis: Everything You Always Wanted to Know and Were Afraid to Ask Joanne Halbrecht, MD Grandma had it, so did Uncle Bill, now you do. What is arthritis anyhow? In my 25 years as an orthopedic surgeon, I have found that most patients are not quite sure what it is. Understandable– you didn’t go to […]

What’s That Noise In My Knee?

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What’s That Noise In My Knee? Joanne Halbrecht, MD Is your knee crunching, grating, popping or snapping?  This may be a serious problem…or not.  Noise in the knee joint most often occurs with squatting, kneeling, going up and downs stairs and pivoting. The crunchy, grating, gravel noise is known as crepitus. There are two primary […]

Lipogems® Reparative Cell Therapy is Transforming Orthopedic Treatment

Groundbreaking procedure accelerates healing, improves recovery rates Orthopedic doctors have a new option when it comes to treating conditions such as arthritis, rotator cuff tears and meniscus injuries. It entails harvesting fat from the body, which is processed and then injected into injured tissue to hasten healing and with the potential to restore and repair […]

Orthopedic Cell Therapy

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Joanne Halbrecht, MD joins Mark Alyn on the Late Night Health Radio Show to talk about orthopedic cell therapy and how it all works. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSC’s) were first isolated from bone marrow by Dr. Arnold Caplan in 1988. He found that when he combined the MSC’s with certain chemicals in the lab, they […]