A California orthopaedic practice led by board-certified surgeon Amir Jamali, offering bone marrow concentrate, Lipogems and platelet-rich plasma alongside joint preservation surgery.
The Joint Preservation Institute is an orthopaedic practice led by Dr Amir A. Jamali, a board-certified orthopaedic surgeon, with offices in Walnut Creek and Sacramento, California. The name reflects its stated focus: trying to preserve a patient's own joint where possible, using surgical and injection-based techniques, rather than moving straight to joint replacement.
On the surgical side the practice offers hip preservation and hip replacement, knee preservation and knee replacement, and shoulder arthroscopy (keyhole surgery inside the shoulder joint). On the injection side it offers platelet-rich plasma (PRP, made by concentrating platelets from a sample of the patient's own blood), bone marrow aspirate concentrate (BMAC, marrow drawn from the pelvis and spun down before injection), and Lipogems, a commercial system that processes a small sample of the patient's own fat so it can be injected.
The site describes the cells used as coming from the patient's own body, specifically mesenchymal stem cells from bone marrow taken from the iliac crest of the pelvis. It should be noted that the conditions listed extend well beyond orthopaedics into cardiovascular, neuromuscular and autoimmune disease, which is far outside the surgical scope described elsewhere on the site. Ask specifically what the practice actually treats and what evidence supports cell injection for your own diagnosis.
The condition list on this site is unusually broad for an orthopaedic surgical practice. Ask directly what evidence supports treatment for your own condition, especially for anything outside bone and joint problems.
All cell products described come from the patient's own body; no donor or birth-tissue material is mentioned.
One surgeon is named on the site.
The practice has two offices: 100 N. Wiget Lane, Suite 200, Walnut Creek, California 94598, telephone (925) 322-2908; and 2825 J Street, Suite 440, Sacramento, California 95816, telephone (916) 492-2110. Note that the directory listing refers to San Francisco, but the addresses published on the site are Walnut Creek and Sacramento. The site does not state the year the practice was founded, does not publish opening hours, does not list languages other than English, and does not describe a service for patients travelling from overseas.
No prices are published. Neither the consultation fee nor the cost of bone marrow concentrate, Lipogems or platelet-rich plasma injection is stated, and the site does not say whether insurance covers these injections.
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.