653: Staying Active Life in Midlife & Beyond with Kevin R. Stone, MD
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
One of the main reasons people stop doing the activities they love is injury—especially to the lower back and knees, which are common in midlife and beyond. When most people see a doctor for these injuries, the primary focus is on pain relief, with little thought given to long-term recovery. However, if your goal is to return to—or even exceed—your previous activity levels, the approach needs to be more nuanced. In this week’s podcast, we’ll dive into the many options available today for healing, including biologics, surgeries, and even joint replacements, so you can keep doing what you love for life.
Listen and learn:
- About PRP injections (and PRP + surgery) as potential treatment options
- The use of stem cells to support healing
- Timeline planning for knee injury recovery
- The possibilities around returning to running
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ABOUT OUR GUEST
Dr. Kevin R. Stone is an orthopedic surgeon, known for his innovations in joint repair and cartilage regeneration. He founded The Stone Clinic and the Stone Research Foundation in San Francisco, focusing on advanced biologics, robotic surgery, and new techniques for knee and ligament repair. He is also the author of Play Forever: How to Recover from Injury and Thrive, where he explores how people can stay active well into old age by taking care of their joints and recovering from injuries.
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| 0:00.0 | Among the top three reasons why people stop doing the activities that they love, whether that's |
| 0:06.4 | running or cycling or skiing, very often comes down to joint injuries, knees and lower back |
| 0:11.1 | being on the top of the list. If your knees hurt, skiing's no fun. If your lower back is killing |
| 0:15.7 | you, probably don't want to run or go to the gym. When we go to doctors for help, it's really |
| 0:20.4 | difficult because doctors are busy |
| 0:22.3 | and oftentimes it's hard for them to understand what our objectives are. Many of their patients |
| 0:28.2 | are simply looking to make the pain go away. And the calculus around what you should do, |
| 0:33.8 | what kind of intervention is best for you, is very different if your objective is |
| 0:37.5 | pain relief than if your objective is to continue skiing year on year for the next decade plus. |
| 0:44.6 | The decisions that you'll make are very, very different if you have a torn meniscus and you |
| 0:49.2 | simply want the pain to go away, that's very different than somebody who wants to get back |
| 0:52.7 | to marathon running. |
| 0:58.7 | And both things are possible and both patients walk into the same doctor's office and the majority of people for better or worse are simply optimizing for pain relief. And there's |
| 1:03.2 | nothing wrong with that. But if that's wrong for you, you really have to explore other options. |
| 1:07.6 | And the good news is there are other options. But wow, it's confusing. |
| 1:11.1 | And you go online. It seems like you need a cryotherapy lab in your house and red light and |
| 1:15.3 | weird injectable peptides. You order from a dodgy online pharmacy. And as is always the case, |
| 1:21.0 | there's some signal amongst the noise. And that's what we'll be chatting about today, |
| 1:25.5 | specifically with joint health. If you're new here, it's age less, live more with Lucas Rockwood. |
| 1:30.4 | I'm a yoga teacher and trainer, a serial entrepreneur. |
| 1:33.0 | I'm the father of three kids, but firstly I'm a student. |
| 1:35.8 | I use this podcast as a way to research and share information around health span, |
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