A physical medicine and rehabilitation practice in Chesterfield, Missouri, led by Dr Patricia Hurford, whose site's orthobiologics pages discuss embryonic stem cells in general terms.
This is the website of Dr Patricia Hurford, a physical medicine and rehabilitation physician in Chesterfield, in St Louis County, Missouri. Her credentials are set out in detail: a medical degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1992, an internship and a residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation at Emory University, a master's degree in sports medicine from Georgia State University, and board certification by the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation both in the specialty and in pain medicine. The site describes her work as musculoskeletal medicine, pain management, sports medicine, electrodiagnostic medicine, injection procedures and the outpatient management of chronic disability.
The practice's regenerative content is grouped under orthobiologics, with pages addressing the hip, the spine and sports injuries. The directory's own notes suggest bone marrow cells from the iliac crest and platelet rich plasma are used, but that is not what the pages reviewed actually say, and it should not be relied upon.
What the orthobiologics page does contain is a general discussion of embryonic stem cells — cells taken from human embryos three to five days old created by in vitro fertilisation — compared with adult stem cells, followed by a long list of conditions that stem cell research addresses in principle: diabetes, damage after a heart attack, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, spinal cord injury, stroke, bone and joint injury, ligament and tendon injury, osteoarthritis and cartilage defects. This reads as background material on the field rather than a description of treatments offered in Chesterfield, and it should not be read as a list of therapies available at this practice. Embryonic stem cells are not used in routine clinical treatment of these conditions.
Because of that, the site does not establish what cell-based treatment, if any, is actually provided here, what the material is, or where it comes from. No prices are published and no insurance information is given, although a board-certified physical medicine practice would ordinarily bill insurance for conventional work. Anyone considering this practice for a regenerative injection should ask for a plain written account of the specific procedure, the material used and its source, and the cost.
The musculoskeletal conditions listed here reflect the practice's stated specialty; the site's general stem cell pages also mention diabetes, stroke, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, spinal cord injury and heart damage, but as research topics rather than treatments offered.
The site's orthobiologics page discusses embryonic stem cells and adult stem cells in general terms, and does not state what cell product the practice itself uses.
The practice is built around one physician, whose training and certifications are set out in some detail.
The practice works from a suite on North Outer Forty Road in Chesterfield, a western suburb of St Louis. It is an outpatient consulting and procedure office, open five days a week according to the hours published, and the site does not describe imaging equipment, a cell processing laboratory or accreditation. There is a separate providers page, so other clinicians may work alongside Dr Hurford, but the pages reviewed name only her.
The site publishes no prices and gives no insurance information. Conventional physical medicine and pain management work of this kind is usually billed to insurance in the United States while regenerative injections generally are not, but the site does not say so; both the cost and the coverage position would need to be confirmed with the practice.
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.