Orthopedics on the Joe Rogan Experience
4 fact-checked claims across 1 episode
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“In the particular study that I'm thinking of, they had, you know, 73% of the patients that received PRP had relief of their pain compared to about 50% of patie…”
The guest cites a head-to-head study claiming 73% pain relief with PRP injections versus about 50% with corticosteroid injections for tennis elbow.
“We know that about 15 to 22% of those fail the meniscal repairs. You know, it's a disappointing number.”
The guest states that meniscal repair surgeries fail in about 15 to 22% of cases.
“they injected that into the knee. And then I think, I want to say it was four or eight months later, I think it was eight months, they re-imaged the knee and t…”
The guest describes a study where injecting bone marrow aspirate (BMAC) stem cells into the knee produced a 15% increase in meniscal tissue volume on re-imaging.
“he published a paper that showed a very high rate of failure from these procedures. And so as a result of that, it's fallen out of favor. So, but it was done v…”
The guest claims thermal capsulorrhaphy (heat-shrinking shoulder capsule tissue) had a roughly 40% failure rate in a published study, causing the procedure to fall out of favor.