A sports medicine and cartilage restoration surgeon in the St Louis area who offers bone marrow injections taken from the hip for degenerative joint and soft tissue problems.
This is the website of Dr Nathan Mall, an orthopaedic surgeon working in the St Louis area of Missouri, with Chesterfield named as an office location. The practice is presented around sports medicine, shoulder and knee reconstruction and cartilage restoration, with regenerative injection treatment offered alongside that surgical work rather than in place of it.
The procedure is described in more practical detail than most clinic sites offer. The site says bone marrow is usually aspirated from the hip region at the iliac crest, with the area numbed first, a needle passed into the pelvic bone and marrow drawn off with a syringe. The sample is then spun for ten to fifteen minutes to produce a concentrated preparation, which is injected into the affected area under x-ray guidance. The whole process is said to take under an hour, with discharge the same day.
On cell types the site is broader, referring to mesenchymal stem cells obtained from adult sources and naming fat tissue, bone marrow and peripheral blood as possible origins, and describing these cells as able to develop into musculoskeletal tissues such as tendon, ligament and cartilage. That last point is a statement about laboratory potential rather than a demonstrated result of the injection, and should be read as such. Everything named is autologous, meaning it comes from the patient's own body; no donor product is mentioned. The site does not say which of the three sources it actually uses in practice beyond the bone marrow procedure it describes, so this is worth clarifying at consultation.
The conditions named are degenerative problems of the shoulder, knee, hip and spine along with soft tissue and bone injuries. Only one credential is set out explicitly, Certified Independent Medical Examiner, with membership of orthopaedic professional bodies also shown, so a prospective patient may wish to verify board certification separately. No prices are published; the site refers to an insurance page but gives no figures.
The conditions named are degenerative joint problems and soft tissue injuries.
The site says bone marrow is drawn from the hip at the iliac crest, concentrated by spinning for ten to fifteen minutes, and injected into the affected area under x-ray guidance.
The practice is built around one surgeon.
The site names Chesterfield, a western suburb of St Louis, as an office location but does not publish street addresses on the pages reviewed. The work described is outpatient: marrow aspiration under local anaesthetic, centrifugation on site and an x-ray guided injection, all within an hour and with discharge the same day. X-ray guidance implies fluoroscopy equipment on the premises, although the site does not describe it, and no laboratory or accreditation is named.
No prices are published. The site has an insurance page but the pages reviewed contain no figures or statement of what is covered. Because this is a surgical practice, conventional work is likely billed to insurance while the bone marrow injection probably is not, but the site does not say so, and a written quotation should be requested.
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.