Column｜Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Insights

Don’t Mistake TFCC (Triangular Fibrocartilage Complex) Tear on the Little-Finger Side of the Wrist for Tenosynovitis — Dr. Moriwaki on Ulnar-Sided Wrist Pain Worsened by Turning Doorknobs or Opening Jar Lids, and the Option of Peri-Articular Injection with Stem Cell Conditioned Media

When an Elderly Knee Keeps Flaring with Sharp Pain — Distinguishing Pseudogout Knee Arthritis from Gout and Knee Osteoarthritis: Dr. Moriwaki Organizes the Role of Stem Cell Conditioned Media Knee Injection for Intra-Articular Inflammation Caused by Calcium Pyrophosphate Crystals

‘De Quervain’s Tenosynovitis’ Causing Sharp Pain on the Thumb Side of the Wrist: Peritendinous Stem Cell Conditioned Media Injection as an Option — Dr. Moriwaki Organizes the Limits of Repeated Steroid Injections for This Stenosing Tenosynovitis Common in Women During Pregnancy, Postpartum, and Menopause

Distinguishing ‘Biceps Long Head Tendinitis’ from Frozen Shoulder and Rotator Cuff Tear — Dr. Moriwaki on Bicipital Groove Tenderness and Peritendinous Injection of Stem Cell Conditioned Media

When a Finger Clicks and Locks: Stenosing Tenosynovitis (Trigger Finger) and the Option of Stem Cell Conditioned Media Peritendinous Injection — Dr. Moriwaki Sorts Out the Limits of Repeated Steroid Injections and How the Approach May Engage the Inflammation and Degeneration Around the A1 Pulley

When the Knee Won’t Fully Straighten: Knee Flexion Contracture as an Overlooked Sign of Advancing Osteoarthritis — Dr. Moriwaki on Where Stem Cell Conditioned Media Knee Injections Fit

Deep, Aching Ankle Pain After a Sprain May Be an Osteochondral Lesion of the Talus—Dr. Moriwaki on the Overlooked Subchondral Injury and How Stem Cell Conditioned Media Ankle Injection Targets the Intra-Articular Inflammatory Environment

Sudden Adult-Onset Flatfoot May Be Posterior Tibial Tendon Dysfunction — Where Stem Cell Conditioned Media Peritendinous Injection May Help and Where It Cannot, Organized by Dr. Moriwaki

An Elbow That Will Not Straighten or Bend Fully Is the Aftermath of an Overused Joint — The Mechanism of Range-of-Motion Loss and Osteophytes, and What Stem Cell Conditioned Media Elbow Injection Can (and Cannot) Do, Organized by Dr. Moriwaki