An interventional pain management clinic in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, offering spinal and joint injections, nerve procedures and a regenerative medicine programme.
The American Pain Institute is a private interventional pain management clinic at 14 Manchester Square, Suite 290, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Its main work is conventional pain medicine: joint injections, spinal injections, radiofrequency ablation (using heat to interrupt a pain-carrying nerve) and spinal cord stimulation. A regenerative medicine programme sits alongside this as an option the site frames as an alternative to surgery.
The site states that the regenerative programme uses what it calls messenger signalling cells together with exosomes (small particles released by cells) and platelet rich plasma (PRP, concentrated from the patient's own blood). For the cell product it names a source: umbilical cord blood, which makes that component allogeneic (from a donor). The platelet component is autologous (from the patient's own body).
What distinguishes the clinic's own writing is that it argues against some of the marketing used in this sector. Its published position is that calling these cells regenerative tissue is an exaggeration often used as a marketing device, that the cells signal repair rather than regrowing tissue themselves, and that comparisons to animals regrowing limbs are myth rather than science. A reader comparing providers may find that unusual candour useful, though it remains the clinic's own framing and is reported here rather than endorsed.
Access is by referral, and the site states that most patients are seen within about two weeks and that one physician, supported by a physician assistant, sees patients at every visit. The clinic says it works with major insurers and offers what it describes as its lowest cash prices for regenerative procedures that insurance does not cover, but no figures are published.
The clinic's condition list is that of a pain practice, spanning spinal, joint and nerve pain as well as pain from cancer.
The site states that it uses what it calls messenger signalling cells sourced from umbilical cord blood, together with exosomes and platelet rich plasma prepared from the patient's own blood.
The site states that one physician sees patients at all visits, supported by a physician assistant.
The clinic occupies a suite in a medical office building at 14 Manchester Square in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and the site states it has been at that location for 13 years. It is an outpatient interventional setting where injections, radiofrequency procedures and implant-related pain treatments are carried out; stated hours are Monday to Thursday, 7.30am to 4pm.
No prices are published. The site says the practice works with major insurance and that it offers its lowest cash prices for regenerative procedures that insurance does not cover, but gives no figures, so the cost of any cell or platelet treatment would have to be quoted at consultation.
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