A Los Angeles practice led by Marc Darrow, MD, JD, offering stem cell and platelet rich plasma injections and prolotherapy for joint, back and neck pain.
The practice presents itself under several names on the same website: Darrow Sports and Wellness Institute, the Prolotherapy Institute and the Darrow Stem Cell Institute. According to the site it operates from a single office on Wilshire Boulevard in west Los Angeles and is led by Marc Darrow, MD, JD.
The site describes an injection-based approach to musculoskeletal pain. It states that stem cell and platelet rich plasma (prepared from the patient's own blood) treatments are simple, non-surgical procedures used to treat joints and the neck and back, and it presents prolotherapy, in which a dextrose solution is injected, as a further option. The emphasis throughout is on avoiding surgery.
Alongside these injections the site lists age management medicine and a cosmetic platelet treatment. Readers should note that the site's claims about what its injections achieve are the clinic's own and are not independently verified here; the site does not present outcome data on the pages reviewed.
The site refers to a cost of treatment page but the pages reviewed did not state prices, and the site does not clearly explain on its main page how or from where the cells used in its stem cell injections are obtained.
The site names the following problems among those it treats.
The site states that stem cell injections are given as a non-surgical treatment for damaged joints and for neck and back pain.
The site names one clinician.
According to the site the practice works from one office in west Los Angeles, at 11645 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 120, and treatment is given as outpatient injections rather than surgery. The site does not describe the premises themselves, state any accreditation, or say how many treatment rooms or staff there are.
The site links to a page about the cost of treatment but the pages reviewed gave no prices, so what treatment costs is not stated in a form that could be read.
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.