A Barcelona chronic pain and spine clinic offering mesenchymal stem cell treatment from the patient's own fat, either same-day or laboratory-cultured.
Clinica Vertebra is a chronic pain and spinal clinic in Barcelona, trading on its site as the Clinica del Dolor de Barcelona and giving 1987 as its founding year. It publishes a full Barcelona address on Passeig de la Bonanova, a second address in Madrid, a shared telephone number, an e-mail address and an authorisation code issued by the Generalitat de Catalunya, the Catalan regional government. That last detail is a useful marker of regulatory standing and is not something most clinics in this directory publish.
The clinic's stem cell page describes two mesenchymal stem cell programmes. Mesenchymal stem cells are a type of adult stem cell found in several tissues, here taken from the patient's own fat. In the first programme the whole process, from harvesting to implantation, is completed in one visit of four to five hours, with what the site calls minimal manipulation of the cells. In the second, the cells are harvested and then grown in the clinic's certified laboratory for about eight weeks before being implanted at a second visit.
Both programmes are described as autologous, meaning the cells come from the patient's own body, which the site says removes the risk of rejection. The conditions named are degenerative: cartilage degeneration, problems of the intervertebral discs, and damage to peripheral nerves. This is a narrower and more coherent list than many clinics publish.
The medical team is named in full on the site, led by Professor Ricardo Ruiz-Lopez, a neurosurgeon and the clinic's director, with named specialists in interventional neuroradiology, neurosurgery, plastic surgery, orthopaedics, anaesthetics, physiotherapy and occupational therapy, and named scientists in cell biology and biomedicine. No prices are published on the pages read.
The clinic's stem cell page names the following degenerative problems.
The site says it uses mesenchymal stem cells taken from the patient's own fat tissue, given either on the same day with minimal processing or after about eight weeks of culture in its own certified laboratory.
The clinic publishes a full named team, including both clinicians and laboratory scientists.
The clinic works from Passeig de la Bonanova 51 in Barcelona, with a second site on Calle Zurbano in central Madrid, and states that it is a centre authorised by the Generalitat de Catalunya under code E08021522. It says it operates its own certified laboratory in which cells are cultured for about eight weeks in the two-stage programme, and it employs named cell biologists alongside its clinical staff. Both sites share a single telephone number and e-mail address.
The site does not publish prices for either stem cell programme on the pages read. Prospective patients would need to contact the clinic for a quotation.
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.