Michael D. Freeman

TL;DR: Muscle training directed at teaching patients to activate their lumbar multifidus muscles is an important feature of any clinical approach to the LBP patient with demonstrated LMM dysfunction or atrophy.

TL;DR: There is no epidemiologic or scientific basis in the literature for the following statements: whiplash injuries do not lead to chronic pain, rear impact collisions that do not result in vehicle damage are unlikely to cause injury, andWhiplash trauma is biomechanically comparable with common movements of daily living.

TL;DR: A review highlighting the developments in cellular and regenerative medicine in the arena mesenchymal stem cell therapy, as well as a case of successful harvest, expansion, and transplant of autologous mesenchyal stem cells into an adult human knee that resulted in an increase in meniscal cartilage volume.

TL;DR: Patients treated with autologous cultured MSCs for lower back pain with radicular symptoms in the setting of DDD reported minor adverse events and significant improvements in pain, function, and overall subjective improvement through 6 years of follow-up.