A non-surgical sports, spine and pain practice linked to a Grand Rapids, Michigan address, offering injections, physical therapy and regenerative treatments including platelet and stem cell injections.
Michigan Sports & Spine Center is a private non-surgical practice treating spine, joint and sports problems. This entry is filed against a Grand Rapids address, but that needs a caveat: the practice's own contact page lists only three offices — Livonia, Lapeer and Burton — and the home page additionally mentions Troy. No Grand Rapids office appears anywhere on the site we were able to read, so the Grand Rapids address in this directory could not be confirmed and may be out of date or mistaken. Anyone planning to attend in Grand Rapids should telephone 248-426-9944 first to check that the office exists and is open.
The site lists a mostly conventional non-surgical range of care: consultations and examinations, physical therapy, osteopathic manipulative treatment, medical massage, electromyography (EMG, a test of nerve and muscle function), musculoskeletal ultrasound scanning, digital imaging and telemedicine appointments. Injection work includes epidural steroid injections, medial branch nerve blocks and radiofrequency neurotomy (heating a pain-carrying nerve to interrupt its signal), alongside prolotherapy (injections intended to provoke a healing response in ligaments and tendons). The practice says it does not perform surgery.
On regenerative treatment the site names two things: platelet rich plasma (PRP), which it describes as a concentration of the patient's own blood platelets, and stem cell therapy, for which it says the patient's own stem cells stored in bone marrow and adipose (fat) tissue can be used. Both are therefore presented as autologous, meaning taken from the patient's own body. Beyond that the site gives no technical detail: it does not say how the marrow or fat is taken, how the material is processed, what laboratory or equipment is involved, or how the two options are chosen between. The site's language about these treatments is promotional. It calls the practice Michigan's top rehabilitative and regenerative medicine practice, describes itself as the "Whole Foods of regenerative medicine" on the grounds that the treatments are natural, and refers to therapies with proven results. It lists expected benefits including less pain, better function, faster recovery and the possibility of avoiding surgery. These are the clinic's own assertions; no outcome data, published results or figures are offered anywhere on the site to support them, and a reader comparing options should treat them as marketing rather than evidence.
Two osteopathic physicians are named on the provider page: Dr Jeff S. Pierce, the medical director, and Dr Dennis Dobritt, a pain management specialist. The site displays insurance logos for HAP, Blue Cross Blue Shield and Priority Health but publishes no prices, and it does not say whether the platelet or stem cell injections are covered by insurance. No languages other than English are mentioned and no facility accreditation is stated.
The site groups its work around injury types rather than listing formal diagnoses.
The site says it uses platelet rich plasma made from the patient's own blood, and stem cells taken from the patient's own bone marrow and fat tissue.
Two physicians are named on the site's provider page; no other clinical staff are listed.
No Grand Rapids facility is described on the practice's own website, which lists offices in Livonia, Lapeer and Burton and mentions Troy on the home page. The address carried in this directory, 4070 Lake Drive SE in Grand Rapids, therefore could not be verified from the source we are required to use, and it should be checked by telephone before travelling. Everything else in this entry describes the practice as a whole rather than a Grand Rapids site.
The site publishes no prices and gives no price range. It shows insurance logos for HAP, Blue Cross Blue Shield and Priority Health, which suggests the rehabilitation and injection work is largely billed to insurance, but it does not say whether the platelet or stem cell treatments are covered — such treatments frequently are not — so a patient should ask what they would pay themselves before booking.
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.