Column｜Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Insights

Painful Bipartite Patella: Do Not Confuse It with Old Patellar Fracture or Patellofemoral Osteoarthritis — Chronic Pain in the Upper Outer Patella from the Accessory Ossicle and Vastus Lateralis Traction, and Where Peri-knee Injection of Stem Cell Conditioned Media Can Address the Inflammatory Environment vs. Where It Cannot Physically Remove the Accessory Ossicle Itself, Explained by Dr. Moriwaki

Why Anterior Knee Pain Only When Descending Stairs Should Not Be Dismissed as “Just Aging” in Knee Osteoarthritis — The Biomechanical Pathology of Excessive Patellofemoral Compressive Stress and Inadequate Eccentric Quadriceps Contraction During Descent, and Where the Intra-articular Stair Descent Knee Pain Injection with Stem Cell Conditioned Media Can and Cannot Address Muscle Strength and Alignment — Explained by Dr. Moriwaki

For Patients Considering Stem Cell Conditioned Media Knee Joint Injections While Taking Joint Supplements Such as Glucosamine, Chondroitin, and Type II Collagen — Dr. Moriwaki Organizes the Combination Design of Knee Joint Injection and Supplements from the Perspective of Mechanism-of-Action Differences Between Oral Intake and Intra-Articular Delivery

Sharp, pinpoint pain just in front of and below the inner ankle bone: distinguishing painful accessory navicular syndrome from lingering sprain pain and flatfoot pain — the chronic micro-injury cycle at the accessory bone on the medial navicular and the posterior tibial tendon insertion in adolescent girls and amateur runners, and where a stem cell conditioned media peri-ankle injection can help by calming the inflammatory environment at the tendon insertion and peri-articular bursa versus where it cannot physically remove the accessory bone or rebuild the medial longitudinal arch — organized by Dr. Moriwaki

What Stem Cell Conditioned Media Joint Injections Can and Cannot Do for Aromatase Inhibitor-Associated Musculoskeletal Syndrome (AIMSS) After Breast Cancer Surgery: How Dr. Moriwaki Draws the Line Between Correcting Intra-Articular Inflammation and Not Correcting Systemic Endocrine Suppression, While Prioritizing the Underlying Cancer Endocrine Therapy

The Vicious Cycle Between Knee Osteoarthritis and Vitamin D Deficiency — Three Effects on Subchondral Bone Metabolism, Quadriceps Function, and Chronic Synovitis, and Dr. Moriwaki Draws the Line Between the Intra-articular Inflammatory Environment That Stem Cell Conditioned Media Knee Injection Can Address and the Systemic Nutritional Status It Cannot

When the Shoulder Cannot Internally Rotate — Distinguishing Subscapularis Tendon Injury from Frozen Shoulder and Supraspinatus Tears: A Positive Belly-Press Test as a Marker of Chronic Micro-Damage to the Anterior Rotator Cuff, and Where Peri-Shoulder Injection of Stem Cell Conditioned Media Can Address the Inflammatory Milieu but Cannot Anatomically Reconstruct a Full-Thickness Tear — Dr. Moriwaki Explains

Don’t mistake Chopart joint arthritis (transverse tarsal joint OA) for sequelae of a sprain or ankle osteoarthritis — Dr. Moriwaki on chronic degeneration of the talonavicular and calcaneocuboid joints, and what stem cell conditioned media peri-articular injection can and cannot address

When Aching Below the Kneecap Comes Back in Adulthood — Do Not Confuse ‘Adult Osgood-Schlatter Sequelae’ with Patellar Tendinopathy or Knee Osteoarthritis: Dr. Moriwaki Explains the Chronic Inflammation Cycle Around the Retained Ossicle at the Tibial Tuberosity, and Where Peri-Knee Injection of Stem Cell Conditioned Media Can Calm the Inflammatory Environment — and Where It Cannot Physically Remove the Bone Fragment Itself