A Lubbock internal medicine and wellness practice offering injections of a donor-derived amniotic tissue product for joint and soft tissue pain, alongside hormone and peptide therapy.
The practice of Dr John R. Smyer is an internal medicine and family practice in Lubbock, Texas, which also works in hormone and regenerative treatment. The site states the practice has more than twenty-two years of experience and has carried out over 8,000 hormone pellet procedures under the BioTE brand.
Its regenerative offering is not a stem cell treatment in the sense used by most clinics in this directory. The site describes a commercial product it names PalinGen amniotic tissue therapy, which it describes as cryopreserved amniotic fluid from placental tissue and as a human placental-derived allograft — meaning donor material from a birth, not from the patient. According to the site the product contains growth factors, hyaluronic acid, signalling proteins, cells, collagen, fibroblasts and enzymes, and is designed particularly for injection into the knee and shoulder joints.
The claims made for it are substantial. The site says the components work together at the site of injury so that new cells can form and the injured tissue can be repaired, remodelled and rebuilt, and describes the product as having anti-inflammatory, anti-fibrotic and antimicrobial properties. It presents the treatment as an option to consider before joint replacement or orthopaedic surgery. These are the manufacturer's and clinic's own claims, offered without trial data on the page; a prospective patient should ask what evidence supports them, and should be aware that off-the-shelf amniotic and placental injection products have drawn regulatory scrutiny in the United States.
Because the material comes from a donor, the questions a patient should ask are different from those for treatments using their own tissue: how donors are screened, how the tissue is processed and stored, what the product is licensed for, and what is actually in each dose. The site does not address any of these. On cost it says only that one dose is a fraction of the cost of other amniotic tissue procedures, without giving a figure.
The conditions named for the amniotic tissue treatment are mostly musculoskeletal.
The site offers a commercial donor-derived product it calls PalinGen amniotic tissue therapy, described as cryopreserved amniotic fluid from placental tissue and as a human placental-derived allograft, rather than a treatment using the patient's own cells.
One physician is named on the site.
The practice is an outpatient internal medicine and wellness clinic in Lubbock, in the Texas panhandle, where consultations, hormone pellet insertion and joint injections are carried out. The site does not describe imaging guidance for injections, does not describe a laboratory, and does not state where the amniotic product is stored or who supplies it.
No figure is published. The site says only that one dose of its amniotic tissue product costs a fraction of other amniotic tissue procedures, which is a comparative claim rather than a price. It does not say whether any part of the treatment is covered by insurance, and donor tissue injections of this kind generally are not.
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