Deborah Westergaard
Double board-certified interventional pain physician and Medical Director of Pain Experts PA in Dallas-Fort Worth, specializing in regenerative orthobiologics (PRP) via the Regenexx network.
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Sep 16, 2026
Mike CapuzziHOST
So let's start at a sort of a high 101 level and describe what those are and what it looks like for a guy over 50.
Deborah WestergaardGUEST
Okay, well, orthobiologics is a branch of regenerative medicine that concentrates on spine and joints.
Deborah WestergaardGUEST
And if there are tears in ligaments, tendons, if there are lax ligaments, if there are muscle tears, we treat muscle tears.
Deborah WestergaardGUEST
And if the cartilage is dwindling away, we can apply these substances for the body to help repair those tissues.
Deborah WestergaardGUEST
And so we use platelet-rich plasma, which is where we draw your blood and we take out most of the white cells and the red cells and we're left with platelets.
Deborah WestergaardGUEST
Platelets have cellular signaling and they help tell the body to repair, to make new blood vessels, to repair cells, to repair tendons, ligaments.
Deborah WestergaardGUEST
So normally every day, say your face for instance, the cells in your skin, they renew each other, they renew.
Mike CapuzziHOST
What kind of specialist, obviously this is what you do, but if a guy is listening to this and this is intriguing him, what's that next step? What is he searching for? Who is he searching for?