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NSAIDs, Steroid Injections, and Turmeric: What Really Protects Your Joints?
NSAIDs, Steroid Injections, and Turmeric are Often Options Joint pain flares push many people toward two common options: Oral NSAIDs Intra-articular corticosteroid injections Both have been widely used for decades. Both temporarily reduce pain. And both have well-documented downsides for cartilage biology. Oral NSAIDs inhibit COX-1 and COX-2 and can impair: Cartilage cell metabolism Proteoglycan synthesis Collagen turnover Long-term cartilage recovery Repeated intra-articular
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Nov 27, 20253 min read
Orthobiologic myth #1: Cartilage Can't Repair Itself After 50?
By Deborah Westergaard, MD | Pain Experts | Dallas–Plano Outdated Thinking About Cartilage Repair After 50 They told you cartilage can’t...
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Oct 7, 20252 min read
Knee Arthritis Treatment Dallas: Are We Treating the Wrong Part of the Knee?
By Deborah Westergaard, M.D. Dallas | Regen Experts Dallas & Plano Treating Knee Arthritis in Dallas For decades, the conventional explanation for knee osteoarthritis was simple: the cartilage wears away, the bones rub together, and eventually you need a knee replacement. I believe that explanation is incomplete. In many patients, the cartilage is not the primary problem—it is the victim. Modern research increasingly recognizes osteoarthritis as a disease of the entire osteoc
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Back Pain Treatment Without Surgery: Why I Moved Beyond Routine Nerve Burning
By Deborah Westergaard, M.D. Dallas | Regen Experts Dallas & Plano If you've been told that nerve burning—also known as radiofrequency ablation (RFA) or rhizotomy is your next step for chronic back pain, you may wonder whether it is your only option. For many years, I performed these procedures myself. Today, I do not. That decision was not based on a single study or a single patient. It came from years of experience, an evolving understanding of spinal biomechanics, and a gr
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Avoiding Surgery in Dallas: Are You Looking for Pain Relief or a Structural Solution?
By Deborah Westergaard, M.D. Dallas | Regen Experts Dallas & Plano Many patients come to my office after months—or years—of pursuing treatments designed primarily to reduce pain. Pain relief matters. But if your goal is to avoid surgery, preserve function, and maintain an active lifestyle, an important question must be asked: Are we treating pain, or are we identifying the structures responsible for the pain? For many patients, those are not the same thing. About Dr. Westerga
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