Dave Rubin recounts his severe knee injury and subsequent recovery using Dr. Richie Striano's regenerative protocol, which combines adipose stem cell injections, hyperbaric oxygen, and laser therapy to target systemic inflammation. Striano, trained at the Mayo Clinic, utilizes high-definition ultrasound to visualize tissue fibers, achieving an 85% response rate by injecting Rubin's own fat-derived cells into specific tears. While Rubin returned to full-court basketball by late May without a brace, follow-up imaging revealed his ACL was merely sprained rather than torn. This case highlights the potential of accessible, multi-layered regenerative medicine against unregulated clinics using compromised cells. [Automatically generated summary]
I came down at the end after playing about three hours on a layup.
Crushed my knee.
I heard pops, cracks, crinkles, crunches like glass and popcorn as if you stepped out in a bag.
I'm actually kind of speechless.
Like, I thought probably I was never playing again.
You have stuff inside of you that can heal yourself.
I mean, it's completely counter to the way we do medicine, which is we're going to, you know, use some pharmacology to put something in you, hopefully to fix you, versus, oh, it's in you already.
That's just a radically different way of looking at things.
All right, guys, it's August, which means I'm off the grid.
I do hope that AI Dave has been keeping you abreast of what's going on in the world, although Real Dave has no idea.
But as we tape this, it is the end of July.
And I'm actually completely thrilled to sit down with this man, a doctor who I now consider a friend, Dr. Richie Striano, the man who saved Dave Rubin's knee.
So we are going to talk stem cells for about a half hour.
We're going to talk a little bit about my journey.
And I really wanted to use my unfortunate knee crushing incident as a learning experience for all of my viewers because it was a learning experience for me.
And I thought when I first took a phone call with you that you were such a good explainer of what is, you know, fairly complex science and technology and everything else.
And fortunately, the results of what you did with my knee have been spectacular.
So before we get into any of that, why don't you give me a little bit of a bio?
And I should note that I got in touch with you through our mutual friend Tony Robbins.
And when you have a medical emergency, to have Tony on your phone to point you in the right direction is clearly the way to go.
But why don't you give me the Richie Striano minute or so medical bio and then we'll dive into stem cells?
And what that means is that I can see up close the details of structural tissue, such as ligaments, tendons, joints, cartilage, the meniscus, et cetera, because I'm going to talk about the knee today.
And unlike an MRI, which gives you a big image from up on high, like when you first log into Google Maps, with high-definition ultrasound imaging, I can zoom in, go in the kitchen, and tell you what you're having for breakfast.
So the detailed imaging, I can see the individual fibers that make up the tissue that are structural in the function of the knee joint.
And the second part of that is I trained at the Mayo Clinic, Andrews Orthopic Institute, Thomas Jefferson Medical College, the Orthobiologic Institute, MSKUS, and have published multiple journals in peer-reviewed clinical studies on the knee and the shoulder.
I've participated in over 35,000 procedures, have been doing this for 25 years, and specifically with stem cells, really since they broke the scene in 2012, exclusively stem cells, exclusively adipose tissue.
So I specialize in adipose tissue, and the reason for that is adipose tissue has more than 100 times the stem cells than bone marrow in an adult, and adipose tissue has an entire community of regenerative cells in addition to the stem cell itself, each of which provides a biological benefit in terms of cellular and structural function.
I call it the reef.
And that's because if you think of it as a coral reef, when you look at a coral reef, you'll focus on one or two of the shiniest fish.
And the other members of that biological ecosystem are frankly ignored.
But they all contribute to the life of that wreath, the organisms, the bacteria, the structural support from the coral, the different creatures that live in that wreath.
Without those, the fancy fish would be dead, right?
Without structure, nothing would function.
Without the bacteria and other elements of that reef, the ecosystem would break down and would die.
And that's the benefit of fat.
You have that entire biological ecosystem preserved intact that now can be deployed into a joint or a steel tissue.
So let me pause you there before we get a little ahead of ourselves because I want to do kind of like stem cell 101 and then we can get into the types of stem cells and the types of procedures.
So the procedure we did was adipose tissue, meaning it was fat from my back.
And we're going to show images of some of these things and the process and all of that.
But before we do anything else, can you just tell me?
Well, okay, so 2012 stem cells, obviously it'd been on your radar first, but like what got you interested in this?
And what was the real breakthrough that made people realize, boy, you have stuff inside of you that can heal yourself?
I mean, it's completely counter to the way we do medicine, which is we're going to, you know, use some pharmacology to put something in you, hopefully to fix you, versus, oh, it's in you already.
That's just a radically different way of looking at things.
So the issue that came to me was basically what I call stabilization, which is that with physical therapy, rehab, other types of treatments, the joints, the spine, the knee remains unstable.
It may get some temporary pain relief.
These therapies are looking at pain relief mostly, and they do not alter the progression of arthritic or damage in the joint.
So that's what became my mission.
Like, what the heck is going on?
That these people need physical therapy for the rest of their life or whatever.
So basically, before this, just for a layman's version, somebody would hurt their knee and basically they would maybe get a steroid shot and do some therapy, but that's not going to heal the actual tendons and the things that you're talking about.
Those therapies, like physical therapy, taking non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, which have downstream side effects to the gut.
And then when you look at steroid injections, they destroy cartilage if you get them over a longer period of time, which is the exact opposite of what you want to do when you're addressing an inflammatory situation.
So the issue became that we have what I call tweeners.
These are people in between the diagnosis of osteoarthritis in the knee and the eventual time that an orthopedic surgeon is going to recommend putting in a new one.
And so what is that treatment gap?
It could be 10 to 15 years in clinical studies, and there are no other alternative treatments used.
These treatments can actually alter and turn back the clock on the osteoarthritic progression and proven to grow cartilage, regenerate tendon, ligament, muscle, nerve, etc.
So that's really where it began.
And then my exploration started with no one knowing anything.
No one was studying the instability, just, you know, the painkillers and injecting the knee with steroids, which is what the orthopedists do.
And so little by little, I began to study structural tissue.
And you could look at abnormalities.
You could do muscle testing.
You could palpate.
You could do a physical exam and see that a ligament is bad or a muscle is bad, et cetera.
But what the heck do you do about it?
And how do you see where it's bad?
So what was interesting, the paradigm shift, I was in New York with my wife, and she was doing a breast ultrasound, looking for lumps and bumps and stuff.
And the light went on.
And I said, holy cow, breast is soft tissue.
Everything I'm trying to figure out is soft tissue.
So I bought an ultrasound machine to her dismay because they were so expensive.
They were the size of a Volkswagen at the time.
And now we're going back like 2007.
And I couldn't see anything, right?
I put it on a patient, had no idea what I'm looking at.
Stuff is everywhere, but it just kind of looks cool, right?
Like, you know, when you look over the surface of water, you put a mask on and look down, and it's like, oh my God, what's under there?
But I realized that my patients had MRIs that clearly the radiologist showed an abnormality, torn rotator cuff or something.
So I said, well, I know there's one.
So let me go to that tendon and see if I can find it, which I couldn't.
And then eventually I did.
So when I found the first one, I printed it and I put it in a book.
And I began to accumulate my own encyclopedia of abnormals because in orthopedic imaging with ultrasound, there was no data.
No one was doing it until eventually the Academy of Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographers offered credentialing in orthopedics.
It was always, you know, gynecologic, cardiac, et cetera.
And so that began in 2010.
I was in the first group to pass that test.
And so I'm certified in that.
And like I said, I've been doing, as part of the treatment protocol you got, beginning with a live point of care diagnostic imaging of every single structure that contributes to joint function.
We use the same imaging to be able to inject structures and abnormalities that I can see as small as a half a millimeter.
I mean, I think there was about a dozen of them and each one you went to specifically.
So let's, so let's pause on me for a moment.
I want to punt that portion of the conversation.
But basically, so, okay, so you've got the ultrasound machine.
You're learning this new technology.
No one's really done it before.
Like this, this is healing things in kind of a new way.
Can you just explain the difference?
Because I think a lot of people still hear stem cell now, and they think either this is placenta-based or there's some other third, one way or another, it's a third party, or it was a baby that was born that no longer survived or something like that.
So can you kind of lay out what the categories are of stem cells?
Again, we did adipose, so we'll end on that one because that'll then get us to what you did with me.
So in essence, it didn't matter that me at 48 was getting these stem cells, like as if I'm getting 48-year-old stem cells because there's more of them.
They're operating better.
So it's similar to how I done this if I was 24, getting it from myself.
I saw, I didn't even go in for my shoulder with you, and you know what you've done to my shoulder.
I mean, I could barely move my arm like this.
And I'm completely, I'm wearing a jacket right now, so it looks a little stiff, but like, I'm completely pain-free.
So, okay, so you specialize in adipose stem cells, which are from your own fat.
So now you get a call from a random guy, happens to be me.
Tony sends you, says, hey, I should call you.
I described what happened.
I told you I took the MRI and everything.
And I said I heard pops, cracks.
It was like stepping on glass.
I really thought I was never playing ball again.
I didn't know if I was going to walk for the rest of the year.
This is back in February.
And immediately on the phone, you were like, no problem, we can fix this.
It's not a big deal, blah, blah, blah.
How are you just so confident that when a random person calls you and say, I crushed my knee, I heard every pop and crack that nobody wants to hear that you can actually fix it properly.
Well, with every patient, first I do a history, right?
So I've got to listen to exactly what you're feeling.
You know, I can't read a picture and determine what restrictions you have in terms of your quality of life and activity, which is my main point.
We want quality of life, activity, stability, strength, support, and, of course, pain relief.
And so the issue became, because I've published clinical studies, even with international colleagues and presented on the knee joint at international conferences.
I know from my own data collection and those of others that we have an 85% response rate.
With every patient, with every medical procedure, there's a failure rate.
It's not magic Pixie does.
So I need to let the patient know that the worst possible scenario is it may not work.
They don't break anything.
They can't ruin anything.
So that's what gives me the confidence.
And then your age and the amount of issues that were taking place in your knee increase the confidence because you're athletic, you're thin, and you're fit.
You're healthy, right?
And so when you put these contributing factors together, you elevate the potential response rate.
Now, osteoarthritis of the knee is no longer considered a disease of cartilage.
It's an inflammatory disease that affects the entire joint, every structure, muscle, ligament, tendon, nerve, the meniscus, et cetera.
So the old thought that it's a disease of cartilage is wrong.
It's an inflammatory disease.
And for many, many years, I've been developing an approach where, you know, like an orthopedic does one shot in the side of their knee and you go home, I expanded it because of my knowledge of imaging, looking at these different structures and seeing damage inside and outside that joint.
Now it's recognized that all of those structures that have to coordinate and cooperate in order for that knee to function are involved in the loss of function.
So first it starts with imaging of every single structure in and out before, while you're in the office.
The second part of that is that once we have that, a math is developed of every single area where there's damage, as little as a half a millimeter, and those become targets for the injection.
Next, we take out the fat, and through a new technology, we are able to isolate 90 to 150 million clinical grade pure stem cells and all the other guys in the reef.
So they're all in that basket of goodies.
And then I have to calculate how much volume goes in each of these tissues, right?
I'm fat.
I have a bigger appetite than you.
Maybe not because I've seen your tomahawks, but I'm still promised one.
Muscle likes more than a tendon, a tendon, you know, likes more than the meniscus, the joint to fill the joint and reduce the inflammation that causes the progression of the disease.
So now you're looking at longevity and systemic inflammation.
First, we're going to address the orthopedic side.
And so I have to make the calculations as to how many CCs of stem cells I need to fill each and every one of those targets.
And I always leave extra because when we do the injection, a tear, as an example, could spread open like you're blowing up a balloon.
And then I need to put more in so that we fill the entire area.
And ultrasound is streaming video.
So we see the stem cells leaving the needle and going into the issue.
So every single structure is filled completely with the exact amount of stem cells it wants to have.
So its appetite is cleared.
Once we've done that, then second, hyperbaric therapy.
I could do a whole interview on hyperbaric therapy.
It increases oxygenation, enhances the function of stem cells, and a very, very important organelle called mitochondria.
They even talk about dysfunctional mitochondria leading to aging.
So the mitochondria is the battery inside of a cell.
And so by enhancing mitochondrial function, you basically recharge or jumpstart the dying batteries in a cell, like turning up the dimmer switch.
You light up six cells.
They regenerate.
The stem cells are asking them to regenerate.
The hyperbaric is helping them by boosting them and giving them support.
And then the last thing was the Genesis laser, the laser developed by the NASA scientist that emits all wavelengths of light.
Each wavelength of light enhances the function of the stem cell, increases oxygenation, regulates the immune system, boosts mitochondrial function, delivers increased blood flow, which is essential for oxygen, because the lack of oxygen is disease, right?
Inflammation, reduced oxygen, you have a disease start.
So each of these layers adds to each other and has its own clinical benefits in and of itself.
So I know people may sound, may think this is crazy, but I walked out of your office and my knee already felt better and my shoulder absolutely felt better.
And I was walking on the beach the next day.
Yeah, I had a little limp still, but I genuinely can't believe it.
And just to give people a little bit of the timeline on this, we did the procedure on April 10th.
A month later, you were texting me for a while, just checking in with me.
But about a month later, you were like, you know, when are you going to play again?
And I was like, what do you mean?
Like, I don't think I can play for months.
And you were like, no, you could probably start testing it out.
And by the end of May, I was playing five on five full court, which I'm still doing, as hard as I've been playing.
I'm not 25 anymore, but it's still something.
How do you even, how do you even have the confidence to say to somebody that had the amount of tears that I had and everything, oh, okay, I don't need to see again.
You just tell me how you feel and just get out there and let's see what happens.
Well, remember, I have the clinical data on over a thousand knee joints.
So I see through orthopedic scoring the improvement at different points and different benchmarks in time.
So a large amount of cases improve within the first seven to 10 days.
The second part is I become a concierge doctor to every patient I treat.
So you have access to me literally seven days a week.
You know, I want to do this.
Is that okay?
Because I want to ensure your best outcome.
So, you know, I don't love them and leave them.
I'm a pain in the ass maybe at times, but I stay with everyone because I think the case personally, that's just who I am.
And so within the first seven to 10 days, we typically see improvements, some overnight, like Tony Robbins described in his book.
And it could take longer.
So the thing to understand is it's a bell curve.
If a patient takes longer to begin to see the benefit, that doesn't mean that their ultimate outcome won't be in the 85th or 90th percentile.
It can be longer.
That's okay.
There's biological plateaus where patients plateau.
They don't feel they're getting any better again.
And then there's another boost.
We don't know why, but I see that plateau with myself, colleagues across the field, even though they don't do what I do, but colleagues across the field, it's a biorhythm of some sort.
So it's great because I can see that none of as surprising as all of this has been to me, this whole process.
Again, I never thought I was going to play again.
That's how bad the pops and the terrors were.
I told you a guy that wasn't even playing, who was off the court, was screaming because how loud the pops were.
To you, none of this is surprising.
This is basically what you do.
So what do you want to happen now to make stem cells kind of scale?
Like when you mention stem cells to people, everyone says this, well, how much?
How much did it cost?
Because obviously there is a cost that, you know, you can do PRP for, I don't know, 850 bucks.
You can do some other peptide things that are obviously going to be cheaper if you're into some of this alternative stuff.
The cost is still there.
What do you need to happen?
And I know you're opening a clinic now down in Stewart, Florida, not too far from us.
Florida's also changed some of the rules just in the last couple of weeks as it relates to stem cells.
So we're leading on that too.
We lead on an awful lot here.
So maybe you want to talk about some of those rules.
But what do you need to happen so that this can become more of a household procedure instead of people just getting that cortisone shot and feeling like they're okay, even though they've actually, as you said, not really fixed anything?
So let me just speak to one point, which is that the financial part hurts me because only wealthy patients can get treatment.
And that kills me.
I hate turning people away because there's something they need that will change their quality of life, but they can't pay for it.
And so what I've done as an example with the 9-11 firefighters is developing a program to help these guys because their lungs are shot and the disabled veterans, because they're largely ignored, obviously they've got orthopedic issues off the charts and they can benefit from stem cells.
So the first thing is in joining and going into this clinic in Stewart, my rule is that I'm the director of the program in my niche of stem cells.
So now I can reduce pricing.
I can change pricing.
I'm not, you know, at the mercy of what the clinic wants to charge, right?
Some of these clinics, you know, I know a clinic that charges $45,000 just to do an intravenous of the same thing you got.
And, you know, without orthopedics.
And, you know, I think that's insane.
So the bottom line is now I can help patients afford treatment more.
You know that anyone that talks to me from you gets a huge discount on the cost of their stem cells.
And so what I really want is for everyone who needs it, this is my mission to make people move.
Movement is life.
And if you can't move, you can't live, right?
I don't care who you are.
And so that's the mission.
I'm now joining a clinic where I can participate in the financial aspects of more people get it.
And the problem in the U.S. is that it's the wild west.
You go to a weekend seminar, the next day a dentist or, you know, a radiologist is doing stem cells because they can make a lot of money doing it.
And they buy frozen umbilical four tissues through the mail, which is not allowed.
And when I was on the board of the Orthopedic Foundation, Cornell, Texas A ⁇ M, we tested all of these tissues in independent labs.
They're all dead, DOA.
And so that's another big issue, whether you have viable stem cells to begin with.
The second thing is, is the doctor experience, you know, like if you're going to get a robotic procedure, you want the guy that's on board in a thousand, right?
So, you know, I came home from a weekend course.
He's never studied interventional ultrasound.
They don't use imaging.
He hasn't studied advanced injection techniques.
So the second part of it is when patients come to me, you know, Doc, I did stem cells and it didn't work.
And then I got to go into the whole thing.
Where did they come from?
Who did it?
Did they do the ultrasound?
What kind of stem cells were they?
Did they come in the mail by Amazon?
Did he take them from you?
And then what was the technique?
How many injections did you get?
And how did he know where the needle went?
You know, you can't do an injection.
You know, I shoot in competition.
You can't shoot blindfolded and expect to hit a target, even though a blind squirrel gets a nut once in a while.
If you can use a high-powered scope, why wouldn't you?
And that's ultrasound.
So ultrasound and the advent of the approach and the stem cells were a paradigm shift in regenerative organism.
But, you know, like a knee joint, I'll inject my own knee.
So here's the issue.
And I'll be quick about this.
The change in a joint begins with inflammation of the synovial membrane, the capsule.
It's called synovitis.
Once that's inflamed, it showers the joint with inflammatory cytokines.
These are like termites, and they begin to eat away at the cartilage.
They poke holes in it, and then that process begins.
When that starts, you can't see it, right?
It's not visible.
It's the very beginning of something.
And what happens is by the time enough cartilage is reduced, so you can see it on an x-ray and ultrasound, et cetera, it's already been there for up to four years, the inflammatory process.
Next, you look systemically.
So intravenous stem cells reduce systemic inflammation, which is the foundation for everything that goes wrong.
They enhance your longevity because they have an anti-aging benefit on the brain, tissues, and organs.
So one of the thought processes is, in terms of theoreticals, there's four major age-related diseases, right?
Cancer, cardiovascular, diabetes, and dementia, right?
Those are the four major guys.
If you're doing intravenous anti-aging and you're able to influence the pineal gland in the brain, which is your biological TikTok on getting older, and you're able to improve your cellular age, not your birthday age, right?
Your cellular age as your cell age, the mitochondria, all of that stuff.
So if you can improve that and increase longevity, think of an electric car, right?
It goes so far, and then its batteries run down.
Mitochondria, cellular energy, inflammatory, immunological, all of the pieces of that pie that are going to eventually cause you to die.
So if you're an electric car after so many mileage, if you can recharge your battery like a car, would you go further?
And if you do go further, then would you completely avoid age-related diseases?
So this is the theory of longevity.
If we increase your health and increase your longevity, then you don't develop the major age-related diseases that we all look at as normal.
As you get older, you're going to get dementia, right?
As you get older, you know, you're going to have cancer somewhere or diabetes or, you know, cardiovascular disease because your arteries are going to accumulate plaque and inflammatory processes in your cardiovascular system.
Well, that doesn't have to be, right?
You can influence tissues and organs with stem cells.
We know that.
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The doubters think, well, you know, that's impossible.
But when you publish and look at the amount of clinical studies, not mine, don't take my word for it.
Do your own research.
And you can see that the benefit of these stem cells in clinicalstudies.gov, looking at everything from Alzheimer's to cancer and everything else, this is the paradigm.
I believe the future of medicine is going to be biological.
So what would you say to someone who has the means?
And again, as this becomes more ubiquitous, obviously the costs will go down and some of the other things that you're personally doing on the cost side.
But what would you say to someone who's rolling into 50 years old in terms of, say, once a year, come get some intravenous stem cells?
And by the way, we should note that your website and your, so your new clinic is opening soon and your website is drrichystriano.com, which we'll link to right down below.
So, all right, so putting aside the ACL thing for a second, let's say it's either gone, which is what I thought, or it's just sprained, so I could deal with either one of those.
So if this is just a sprain of the MCL, that makes sense to you relative to all the pops and the crunching?
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You'd be surprised.
MCL sometimes can be, you know, it can be very uncomfortable and you can be out for a bit.
Now the pops and crunches, it's always hard to say what that is.
And worst case scenario is I go back to not having an ACL, which is what I thought, or I do have an ACL that maybe we can do some therapy on or something.
It's going to be like, you know, with the MCL sprain, probably, you know, two to four weeks and then doing a little bit of therapy and hopefully you'll be back to playing ball and doing what you were doing before.
And we're going to, as my friend said to me, it's pretty cool that, you know, in the old days, you'd either just get surgery or they would put something into you, right?
Like they have to put some kind of medication into you or put some kind of fake knee or something.
And now you can use your own body, your own stem cells, which come from your fat, to repair yourself.
And then there's this amazing technology that is now legal in the U.S. where with this time machine, it can take all of the cells out of fat and leave that reef intact so that we can distribute it systemically for all the benefits I explained, as well as in direct injection into all of these tissues.
So there'll be a bunch of little injections.
It's not that they hurt.
We're going to raise a little lidocaine.
We don't put the lidocaine where we put the cells because lidocaine is cytotoxic.
So that's also an issue when people get stem cells and they say it didn't work.
You know, did the doctor fill it up with lidocaine and you know, like the pool, and then put the stem cells in the pool.
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Right.
I've got a pretty good threshold, so I'll be okay.
That's why it helps heal wounds and all of these other things.
So this is going to drive oxygen in everywhere right after we put the stem cells in and circulated them to recharge your body.
Now we're going to dump it with oxygen.
And they're all going to be like, wow.
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Alright, so basically what we're going to do is we're going to extract your own stem cells from your fat tissue.
Okay, so what's going to happen is I'm going to make two little incisions on the back, just small little incisions.
It doesn't require a stitch or anything.
I'm going to put some nomen medication on it.
We're going to wait a few minutes.
And then with a very small cannula, I'm going to aspirate manually your fat.
After that, we're done.
I'm going to take about an hour and a half to put your adipose tissue into a centrifuge and they're going to incubate it and basically going to activate those stem cells.
So I'm going to start putting the local anesthetic in here.
If you feel a little discomfort, it's going to be very momentary right now, okay?
But it should dissipate really quick.
So let me know how you're doing.
I don't feel anything.
Go ahead.
Tiny bit.
Tiny bit.
this is really the most discomfort you're going to feel okay good So if you want to look at this, he has two tiny little...
That's all it is.
Oh, that's it?
That's it?
That's all he got.
Two tiny little marks.
See, it's nothing real here that you can tell much other than a little bit of swell and obviously you have the local anesthetic in there, but it's almost nothing.
Alright, guys, this is a super exciting day for me.
I'm about to get back on the basketball court basically for the first time since mangling my knee.
That was the end of February.
Today is May 16th, so it's only a couple months later.
And at the end of February, I was playing ball.
You guys know the story.
I came down at the end after playing about three hours on a layup, crushed my knee.
I heard pops, cracks, crinkles, crunches like glass and popcorn as if you stepped down in a bag.
There was a guy that wasn't even on the court who was like, Holy cow, did you hear that?
It was terrible.
I thought I was never going to play again.
Anyway, that was the end of February.
Then on April 10th, I went and I got stem cells.
It was really, really an incredible procedure where they took fat from my back, they spin it in the centrifuge, do all kinds of stuff.
I had about 15 tears, like micro tears in my knee.
The doctor directly injected each one, Dr. Richie Striano, who's like a revolutionary in the industry.
And we're going to do an interview with him.
We did it there.
Turns out I also had a big tear in my shoulder from something else.
We did it there.
My arm's working.
Look at that.
I got an arm that works.
My arm was only going up to here.
Try playing basketball when you can only do that.
Try picking up kids when you can only do that.
Anyway, now today is May 16th.
So just about five weeks, barely five weeks after I did the stem cells.
And I've been working out a little bit.
I did play a little two on two, which probably wasn't the wisest thing to do two weeks ago, but it was kind of slow motion.
But today we're running some drills.
I'm going to run some drills with Joey, who works for me, who's a hell of a player.
And then two days from now on Sunday, I'm going to play 5 on 5 full court again.
And we just wanted to track this entire thing because the idea that you can seriously rip a lot of stuff in your body and then heal it with your own body's stuff.
No surgery, no medication, none of that stuff, is pretty awesome.
So had to bust out, got some new sneaks, got some new kicks for this.
So these are the new kicks I'm very excited about.
Got to get some new sneakers for when you make the return to the court.
And then, even though technically my knee should be as strong as my other knee right now, I am a little nervous.
So I'm going to do the same routine that I normally would do if I was playing beforehand because I had a bit of a weak knee before from some other basketball injuries.
So I wrap this baby.
And then I have a sleeve, which this is just kind of adds a little compression to it.