A single-surgeon orthopaedic practice in west Austin combining cartilage and sports surgery with bone marrow cell-based injections for arthritic and injured joints.
Austin Ortho + Biologics is a private orthopaedic practice at 5300 Bee Cave Road in west Austin, Texas, built around one surgeon, Dr Kelly Cunningham. The site presents an unusual combination: conventional cartilage restoration surgery on one side and cell-based injection therapy on the other, both aimed at the same group of patients with damaged or arthritic joints.
The site has renamed what it used to call stem cell therapy as cell-based therapy, and says it is a form of regenerative medicine that uses the body's own healing mechanism to renew or repair damaged tissue. According to the site the cells are taken from the patient's own bone marrow in an in-office procedure, with sedation available, and are then introduced into the injured area. It says the procedure takes place in a day surgery setting with little downtime afterwards.
Cartilage work is the practice's stated surgical speciality. The site says Dr Cunningham trained under Dr Richard Steadman in Vail, Colorado, and has more than twenty years of experience with cartilage procedures including microfracture. That surgical background is relevant context: the practice frames cell-based injection as one option for joint arthritis rather than as a replacement for all surgery, and describes it as a way some patients may delay or avoid joint replacement.
Two gaps are worth noting. The site makes an activity claim — that for recreational athletes one treatment often allows a return to sports such as golf, tennis, skiing, swimming and running within weeks — but it gives no supporting data, and readers should treat that as the clinic's own marketing rather than an established result. The site also says nothing about how the marrow is processed, what the final injection contains, the regulatory status of the preparation, or cost.
The site focuses tightly on joint and cartilage problems rather than systemic disease.
The site describes cell-based therapy as using the patient's own cells, recovered from bone marrow in an in-office procedure, to treat damaged or arthritic joint tissue.
The practice is built around one named surgeon.
The practice is based in a suite at 5300 Bee Cave Road in west Austin. The site describes cell harvesting as an in-office procedure and says the cell-based treatment is carried out in a day surgery setting, so patients go home the same day. It does not describe an on-site laboratory or name an outside processing facility.
No prices are published. The site asks prospective patients to telephone for a consultation and does not say whether cell-based therapy is covered by insurance, although conventional orthopaedic surgery at such a practice normally would be.
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.