Los Angeles area pain medicine and rehabilitation practice offering spine injections, nerve procedures and regenerative treatments including bone marrow and fat-derived cell therapy.
NUVO Spine and Sports Institute and Ortho Regenerative Center is a private medical practice in the Los Angeles area led by Payam Vahedifar, MD. The practice works in physical medicine and rehabilitation, pain medicine and non-surgical interventional treatment for problems of the spine, joints and muscles. It runs three offices: Encino, Beverly Hills and Thousand Oaks.
Most of what the practice does is image-guided injection and nerve work rather than open surgery. The website lists epidural injections, facet joint injections, injections guided by fluoroscopy (live X-ray), genicular nerve blocks for the knee, radiofrequency ablation (using heat to interrupt a pain nerve), spinal cord stimulation and intrathecal pumps, and spine procedures such as kyphoplasty and vertebroplasty for compression fractures, the Disc-FX system, percutaneous HydroDiscectomy or SpineJet, and intradiscal electrothermal therapy (IDET).
Alongside these, the practice offers what it calls biological or regenerative treatments: platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections, alpha-2 macroglobulin (A2M) injections, and stem cell therapy using cells taken from the patient's own fat tissue or bone marrow. Telemedicine appointments are also offered. The site does not set out what evidence supports the regenerative treatments for any particular condition.
The practice lists a wide range of spine and joint problems. Ask specifically what evidence supports the treatment being proposed for your own condition.
The practice has three Southern California offices. The Encino office is at 16633 Ventura Blvd, Suite 802, and the Beverly Hills office is at 433 N Camden Dr, Suite 550; a third office is in Thousand Oaks. Opening hours, the year the practice was founded, languages spoken and any services for patients travelling from abroad are not stated on the website.
No prices or consultation fees are published on the website. You would need to contact the practice directly to find out what a consultation and any treatment would cost, and whether insurance covers it.
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.