San Antonio, TX – Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy (ESWT), a noninvasive treatment to promote healing and relieve pain, has arrived in South Texas at the Non-Surgical Center of Texas. Sports medicine physician Dr. Annette Zaharoff has added shock wave therapy to the coterie of regenerative medicine treatments she offers to professional and amateur athletes, weekend… Continue Reading
By Annette “Dr. Z” Zaharoff, M.D. A new pilot study by researchers at the Baylor College of Medicine provides even more evidence that one of the major Regenerative Injection Treatments for joint and musculoskeletal pain we administer at the Non-Surgical Center of Texas, quite simply, works. Results published in the journal “Regenerative Medicine” showed just… Continue Reading
By Dr. Annette Zaharoff Hospitals across the country are reaching bed capacity as the second surge of the COVID-19 starts to peak. El Paso has 60 people being treated COVID-19 at San Antonio hospitals because theirs are full. Making matters worse, the TSA reported screening more than 1 million people a day in the days… Continue Reading
Noted sports medicine physician to serve as president of global professional regenerative medicine organization San Antonio, TX – Sports medicine physician Dr. Annette Zaharoff has been named president of the newly formed International Association for Regenerative Therapy. The Association, or IART, is an advocacy group for regenerative medicine, particularly prolotherapy. IART’s mission is to teach… Continue Reading
Dr. Annette Zaharoff, Founder and Medical Director of the Non-Surgical Center of Texas, appeared on the “Ask the Experts: South Texas Live” radio show on Saturday, July 13 on 930-AM “The Answer” station KLUP. Dr. Zaharoff, speaking with audiologists Dr. Nicole Davis and Dr. Dawn Bledsoe, talked about her passion for non-surgical regenerative medicine, her… Continue Reading
Susan Skaer loves going to Mexico, where she visited her dad when he worked as an electrical engineer for years, helping erect power plants in communities across Central America. She traveled south of the border three or four times a year for decades, until back pain sidelined the 75-year-old adventurer. “It started 20 years ago… Continue Reading
Cancer survivor Sister Barbara Fry entered the convent in 1964 as a Sister of Divine Providence. She spent her vocation in service, first as a teacher before moving on to do campus ministry in Louisiana and Houston, and performing medical social work in hospitals and hospice. Along the way, she learned how to knit and… Continue Reading
By Annette “Dr. Z” Zaharoff, M.D. In 2016, a study published in the “Annals of Internal Medicine” found that physicians spend about 27 percent of their work day treating patients. If that doesn’t sound like a lot of time, well, it really isn’t. Consider that some primary care physicians see up to anywhere from 25… Continue Reading
By Annette “Dr. Z” Zaharoff, M.D. I recently returned from a workshop in Orlando, Florida called “Dedicated Ultrasound Training: Hands-on Image Guided Techniques & Applications.” Ok maybe it doesn’t sound fascinating, but keeping up with how to best use ultrasound technology for the various Regenerative Injection Techniques I employ at the Non-Surgical Center of Texas… Continue Reading
By Annette “Dr. Z” Zaharoff, M.D. We all know the feeling of stepping on a thorn, or getting a paper cut. What happens next is fascinating in many ways. Microscopic pain receptors, or nociceptors, in the skin are activated by tissue damage. Each pain receptor forms one end of a nerve cell (neuron). It is connected by a long nerve fiber… Continue Reading