Creek Stone Integrated Medical

What actually happens during a visit in the Non-Surgical Knee Program?**

Your plan is built from your evaluation, so no two knees receive an identical visit. Depending on your findings and candidacy, a treatment visit may include:

🔹 Hands-on joint mobilization or manual therapy
🔹 Non-surgical knee decompression
🔹 Radial shockwave or Class IV laser
🔹 Guided strength and movement retraining
🔹 Progress checks against your starting measurements

Regenerative procedures such as PRP may also be recommended at defined points in the program for appropriate candidates. They are not automatically included in every visit, and each therapy is selected by the treating provider.

The point is not to stack treatments. It is to use the right combination for your knee, then measure whether function is changing.

📞 Call **806-355-3000** to start with a knee evaluation.

*Therapies and procedure timing are determined by individual evaluation. A trial of conservative care is not a guarantee or a substitute for surgery when indicated. Individual results vary.*

The Creek Stone crew is rocking fresh new gear!

Run Club meets every Tuesday at 6pm! Supportive vibes, fun energy, and a community that keeps you moving!

Want one of the new shirts? Just let us know and we’ll get you set up! 🏃🏽‍♀️🏃🏻‍♂️

Meet Cammye Ladd, FNP-C — now scheduling at Creek Stone Integrated Medical.

Cammye is a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner with 9 years in healthcare and a background in both primary and urgent care. She sees patients for:

Primary care
Hormone optimization
Medically guided weight loss
IV therapy
Regenerative care

Her approach is simple — care that starts with listening. You'll get time, real answers, and a plan built around your goals.

📍 3501 SW 45th Ave., Ste. T, Amarillo, TX 79109
📞 806-355-3000

Schedule with Cammye today.

Have you started organizing your day around your knee?**

Maybe it looks like:

• Pushing off the armrests to stand
• Taking stairs one step at a time
• Avoiding kneeling because getting back up is difficult
• Skipping the walk because you expect to pay for it later
• Choosing the closer parking space before you even think about it

These small workarounds can become so normal that you stop counting them as limitations.

A knee evaluation can help identify what is driving the difficulty—pain, motion loss, weakness, movement control, joint changes, or a combination—and whether a structured conservative plan may help.

📞 Call **806-355-3000** to schedule an evaluation with **Kyra Easter, DC**.

*A trial of conservative care is not a guarantee. Candidacy by evaluation; individual results vary.*

Researchers are looking beyond the number on the scale.

A new systematic review examined tirzepatide and two blood markers associated with inflammation. Across seven randomized trials and one observational study, tirzepatide was associated with greater reductions in hsCRP and IL-6 compared with placebo.

In the pooled analysis, the difference in percentage change was 32.9 points for hsCRP and 17.8 points for IL-6.

That is promising biomarker evidence. It does not prove that tirzepatide treats an inflammatory disease, and it does not tell us how any one person will respond. Some of the change may also come from weight loss and improved metabolic health rather than a direct medication effect.

Medication is one part of a medically supervised plan. Indication, side effects, contraindications, nutrition, and protecting muscle mass all matter.

To ask whether Creek Stone's medical weight-management program may be appropriate for you, call **806-355-3000**.

Source: Masson et al., *Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders*. PMID 41032183. Individual results vary. Prescription medication requires evaluation by a qualified medical provider.

**The right choice can change everything**

Muscle size is only part of the story. The real question is what that muscle can do.

A new systematic review pooled 41 randomized trials involving 3,141 adults age 60 and older. Resistance exercise significantly improved muscle-specific strength, meaning the amount of strength produced relative to muscle mass.

Nutrition supplements, aerobic exercise, and combined approaches did not show a statistically significant improvement in that specific measure. That does not make them unimportant. It means resistance training was the intervention that stood out for this outcome.

The studies varied considerably, so there is no single routine for everyone. The right starting point depends on health history, balance, joint tolerance, and current function.

If getting out of a chair, climbing stairs, carrying groceries, or keeping your balance feels harder than it used to, an evaluation can help identify a safe place to begin.

📞 Call **806-355-3000** to schedule.

Source: Ohta et al., *Ageing Research Reviews*, 2026. PMID 42570706. Individual results vary. Exercise should be selected with a qualified provider when medical or fall-risk concerns are present.

**The right choice can change everything**

Still looking for a clinic that sees more than one symptom at a time?

At Creek Stone Integrated Medical, chiropractic and medical care work together under one roof in Amarillo. We take time to understand what is limiting your movement, explain your options in plain language, and build care around the person in front of us.

Whether your goal is to move with more confidence, recover function, or stay active for the people who count on you, it starts with an honest evaluation.

Call **806-355-3000** to schedule.

**The right choice can change everything**

A degenerative meniscus tear does not automatically mean surgery.**

In a five-year randomized trial of adults ages 45–70 with degenerative meniscal tears, exercise-based physical therapy remained noninferior to arthroscopic partial meniscectomy for patient-reported knee function. Another major trial involving patients with a meniscal tear and mild-to-moderate osteoarthritis found no significant average difference in functional improvement between surgery-plus-rehabilitation and a physical-therapy-first strategy at six months—although some patients in the therapy group later chose surgery.

That does not mean every tear belongs in conservative care. A locked knee, a true mechanical block, an acute traumatic injury, or other concerning findings may require orthopedic evaluation.

It does mean that many adults with a common degenerative tear have a reasonable basis for asking whether structured conservative care should come first.

📞 Call **806-355-3000** for an evaluation with **Kyra Easter, DC**, a GRIP-certified non-surgical knee provider.

*Educational information, not medical advice. Appropriate candidates only; some meniscal injuries require surgical referral. Individual results vary.*