Column｜Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Insights

Worried About Your Stomach and Kidneys From Long-Term NSAIDs? Joint Treatment Options Explained by Dr. Moriwaki

Thermotherapy and Joint Injections: Where Blood-Flow Benefit Meets Inflammation Risk — Explained by Dr. Moriwaki

Before Recommending Joint Injections to an Elderly Parent — Goal Setting and Fall Risk Assessment

Prevention for People with a Family History of Osteoarthritis — Playing Ahead of Genetics and Lifestyle, Explained by Dr. Moriwaki

Wrist Pain on the Ulnar and Dorsal Sides Every Time You Open a Jar? Do Not Confuse Distal Radioulnar Joint Arthrosis (DRUJ Arthrosis) with TFCC Injury, Kienböck’s Disease, or Wrist Osteoarthritis — Dr. Moriwaki on Joint-Space Narrowing and Articular Disc Degeneration at the Radius–Ulna Junction, and Where Peri-Articular Stem Cell Conditioned Media Injection to the DRUJ Can — and Cannot — Correct the Deformity Itself

Grinding, Painful Snapping Along the Medial Border of the Scapula — Not to Be Mistaken for Cervical Radiculopathy or Trapezius Myofascial Pain: Dr. Moriwaki Explains Snapping Scapula Syndrome, Scapulothoracic Bursitis Chronicized by Desk Work and Overhead Sports, and Where Peribursal Injection of Stem Cell Conditioned Media Can and Cannot Reach in the Rib–Scapula Interface

External snapping hip (coxa saltans externa) — a lateral thigh ‘pop’ that must not be confused with greater trochanteric pain syndrome: chronic bursitis from repetitive friction between the iliotibial band and greater trochanter, and where stem cell conditioned media periarticular injection can correct the inflammatory environment vs. where it cannot alter the anatomical friction path — organized by Dr. Moriwaki

Don’t dismiss ‘medial meniscus extrusion’ on your knee MRI as ‘just aging’: how a meniscus pushed outside the joint line accelerates cartilage loss, and where stem cell conditioned media knee injection can help address intra-articular inflammation versus where it cannot restore anatomical position — organized by Dr. Moriwaki

Are Osteophytes (Bone Spurs) Seen on Knee Osteoarthritis X-rays Really a Foreign Body to Remove? — Dr. Moriwaki on Bone Spurs as Structures the Body Builds to Stabilize the Joint, and the Line Between What Stem Cell Conditioned Media Knee Injection Can and Cannot Do