A short talk (YouTube video) by Dr. Joshua John‑Ram Schacter explaining the rationale for offering regenerative therapies (PRP, stem cells, ultrasound guidance) that are often not covered by insurance. He frames these treatments against the limits and complications of conventional surgery, recounting a recent surgical case that prompted reflection on alternative approaches to reduce patient pain and disability.
So I want to talk a little bit about why we are doing regenerative therapies. Why do we do things that insurance doesn't pay for? Why do we do these new cutting edge procedures like PRP injections? Why do we use ultrasound guidance? Why do we use stem cell? And I was doing a surgery yesterday. I still do a fair amount of surgery. As you know, I'm a board certified orthopedic surgeon. I've done thousands of joint reconstructive surgeries. And yesterday we were doing surgeries and I have wonderful patients. One of our surgeries didn't go as we expect. And I know that a lot of surgeons maybe don't us talking about this, but to be honest guys, not all surgery goes as we expect. There's problems that we can have intraoperatively. And so these are the types of things. And when I watch patients over years and years suffer from pain, from disability, from surgeries that don't go quite the way we want, even though the vast majority of the things that we do work, even getting there can sometimes be a painful and awful process for our patients. But yesterday really gave me a pause and gave me a.
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