The orthopaedic service of Allina Health, a Minnesota hospital system, which offers platelet and cell injections at some of its clinics.
Allina Health Orthopedics is the orthopaedic service of Allina Health, a hospital and clinic system in Minnesota. It is not a standalone stem cell clinic. The site describes a large multidisciplinary service of orthopaedic surgeons, sports medicine physicians, physician assistants, athletic trainers, nurses, physical therapists and podiatrists working across clinics in the Twin Cities and wider Minnesota, with affiliated hospitals named as Abbott Northwestern, Mercy, United and Buffalo.
Regenerative medicine occupies a single page within that service. Four approaches are named. Platelet rich plasma (PRP, prepared from the patient's own blood) is described as delivering a high concentration of the person's own growth and healing factors in a thirty to forty-five minute office procedure. Autologous blood injections (ABI) are described as comparable to platelet rich plasma but using whole blood. Tenex Health is described as minimally invasive tendon repair carried out with ultrasound imaging. The fourth is mesenchymal stem cell therapy.
All the material described is autologous (from the patient's own body): platelets or whole blood from the patient's blood, and for mesenchymal stem cell therapy, the patient's own specialised connective tissue or bone marrow. No donor, umbilical cord or amniotic products are mentioned anywhere. The site states that mesenchymal stem cells have the ability to rebuild cartilage and bone; that is the service's own account of the rationale rather than a statement of demonstrated outcomes, and no success figures are published.
The conditions the regenerative medicine page names are tendon, joint and ligament problems rather than systemic disease. The content is attributed to Robby Bershow, MD, an orthopaedic physician. On cost, the site tells patients to check with their insurance company which regenerative medicine procedures it covers — a useful indication that at least some may be billable rather than wholly self-pay, though no figures are given. The site does not state languages spoken or a founding year for the service.
The regenerative medicine page names the following tendon, joint and ligament problems.
The site describes mesenchymal stem cell therapy using tissue taken from the patient, and says these cells have the ability to rebuild cartilage and bone.
The service is large and the site does not name every clinician; the regenerative medicine page credits one reviewer.
This is a hospital-system service rather than a single clinic. The regenerative medicine page indicates the treatments are available at a small number of Allina Health Orthopedics locations in the Twin Cities metropolitan area rather than across the whole system, and the injections are described as office procedures taking well under an hour. Because the service sits inside Allina Health, patients also have access to the system's hospitals, imaging and physical therapy. The site does not describe any dedicated cell processing laboratory.
No prices are published. The site tells patients to check with their insurance company which regenerative medicine procedures it covers, so at least some may be billable to insurance; anything not covered would be self-pay and would need a quote from the clinic.
Profile compiled from information published on the clinic's own website and from the StemCell Registry directory record. Details may change; confirm directly with the clinic before making decisions.