A single-clinician regenerative medicine practice in Bend, Oregon offering ultrasound-guided injections of the patient's own fat-derived cells, platelet rich plasma, prolotherapy and hyperbaric oxygen.
Bend Regenerative Medicine, which the site says was formerly the Center for Integrative Medicine, is a single-clinician practice at 464 North East Norton Avenue, Bend, Oregon. Note that the telephone number and address on the current site differ from those in this directory's older notes, so they should be confirmed. Hours are given as Monday to Thursday, 8am to 5pm, with a lunchtime closure. The practice describes itself as focused exclusively on orthopaedic pain and injury treated through regenerative medicine.
Four treatments are offered: prolotherapy, platelet rich plasma (PRP, prepared from the patient's own blood) given under ultrasound guidance, adipose-derived stem cell therapy using the patient's own fat, and hyperbaric oxygen therapy. The stem cell page is relatively detailed about process. It describes fat being collected by lipoaspiration, a minimally invasive procedure carried out at the clinic, and then either processed into microfragmented adipose tissue, which may be combined with platelet rich plasma, or sent away for expansion. For the expansion route the site says the sample goes to a certified laboratory regulated by the United States Food and Drug Administration where cells are isolated and increased in volume, a process it says takes around six weeks.
Everything injected is described as the patient's own tissue, which makes this an autologous (from the patient's own body) approach with no donor or birth tissue products named. Delivery is either by ultrasound-guided injection into joints, tendons and ligaments, or intravenously for what the site calls systemic or neurological conditions. The site makes a biological argument for preferring fat over bone marrow, stating that fat cells replicate far less often and so behave as biologically younger, and that the approach therefore suits patients over 60. That is the clinic's own reasoning rather than established consensus, and the site's reference to recent regulatory changes allowing greater flexibility in cell handling is vague; both are worth questioning at a consultation, particularly the laboratory expansion route, which is more tightly regulated in the United States than same-day processing.
The clinician is Payson Flattery, ND, DC, DAAPM, FMHC, described as owner and medical director with more than 25 years in regenerative medicine, training in musculoskeletal ultrasound imaging over 17 years, and a founding and former faculty role at the Naturopathic Academy of Therapeutic Injection. He is a naturopathic physician and chiropractor rather than a medical doctor, which a patient may wish to factor in. Conditions named include degenerative joint disease, ligament and tendon degeneration and laxity, spine and joint instability, sports injuries, musculoskeletal pain, post-operative recovery and, via the intravenous route, neurological and systemic inflammatory conditions. No prices are published.
The practice is mainly orthopaedic, with some systemic conditions treated intravenously; the list below follows its own pages.
The site states that it uses the patient's own fat-derived stem cells, collected by lipoaspiration at the clinic and either processed the same day into microfragmented adipose tissue or sent to an external regulated laboratory for expansion.
This is a single-clinician practice led by a naturopathic physician and chiropractor.
The clinic is at 464 North East Norton Avenue in Bend, in central Oregon, with hours of Monday to Thursday, 8am to 5pm and a lunchtime closure. Fat is collected on the premises by lipoaspiration and, for same-day treatment, processed there; for the expansion route samples are sent to an outside laboratory. The practice has musculoskeletal ultrasound for diagnosis and injection guidance, and a hyperbaric oxygen chamber. No accreditation of the clinic itself is stated, and the name of the external laboratory is not given.
No prices are published for any treatment and the site makes no statement about insurance. Regenerative injections and hyperbaric oxygen of this kind are generally paid for privately, so a patient should ask for a figure, and should ask separately about the cost of the laboratory expansion route, which involves an outside laboratory and a six-week wait.
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.