An interventional pain management clinic in Albuquerque led by a board-certified physician, offering spinal procedures and regenerative injections from the patient's own tissue.
Interventional Pain Associates of New Mexico is a pain management clinic at 4824 McMahon Boulevard Northwest in Albuquerque. The site presents it as an interventional pain and physical medicine practice treating injured athletes and people with severe acute or chronic pain. The bulk of what it lists is conventional interventional pain work: epidural steroid injections, radiofrequency ablation of the facet joints, sympathetic blocks, spinal cord stimulation, kyphoplasty for compression fractures, botulinum toxin for headache, and rehabilitation.
Regenerative medicine is named as one of the treatments offered, set out in general terms: the site describes the field as replacing or regenerating human cells or tissues, and states that the cells it uses are harvested from the patient's own body. That makes this an autologous (from the patient's own body) approach, and it rules out donor-derived products, which is helpful information. In the joint pain section the site lists regenerative medicine alongside corticosteroid injection, viscosupplementation and prolotherapy, so regenerative injections are presented as one option on a ladder of treatments rather than the practice's main business.
What the site does not say is which tissue the cells come from. It names neither bone marrow nor fat, gives no account of how the tissue is collected or concentrated, and does not state whether the injections are performed under ultrasound or fluoroscopic guidance. The directory's earlier notes suggested a bone marrow or fat harvest followed by reinjection, but the site itself does not confirm that. A prospective patient should ask what is harvested, how it is processed, how many injections a course involves, and who performs them.
Credentials are well documented. The site names Joshu Raiten, MD, as founder and owner, stating that he is board certified in both physical medicine and rehabilitation and in interventional pain management, trained at the University of New Mexico for his medical degree, completed residency at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio and a fellowship in interventional pain management, and formerly held an assistant professorship at the University of New Mexico. Maria Hultquist, PA-C, is also named. No prices, founding year or languages are published; the site's copyright notice covers 2020 to 2022, so some pages may not be current.
The site lists the following conditions with the treatments it offers for each.
The site states that its regenerative treatments use cells harvested from the patient's own body, but does not say from which tissue.
The site names the following clinicians.
The clinic occupies a suite at 4824 McMahon Boulevard Northwest in the north-west of Albuquerque. The site describes an outpatient interventional pain clinic where injections, nerve blocks and minimally invasive spinal procedures are performed, with rehabilitation also offered. It does not describe an operating theatre, a laboratory or a cell processing facility, and no accreditation body is named on the pages reviewed.
The site publishes no prices for regenerative injections or any other treatment, and does not state which insurance plans it accepts. Cost and coverage would need to be confirmed with the clinic.
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.