A Brisbane regenerative medicine clinic led by Dr Paul Schiavo, offering injected cartilage progenitor cell treatment taken from the patient's own ear cartilage.
OrthoRegen is a private regenerative medicine clinic at Mitchelton in Brisbane, founded and medically directed by Dr Paul Schiavo. The site describes a practice built around ultrasound-guided injection treatments for joint, tendon and bone problems rather than around surgery.
Its most distinctive treatment, which the site brands MYTOCELL, is cartilage progenitor cell micro-grafting. According to the site, a biopsy of roughly 2.5mm is taken from the patient's own ear cartilage under local anaesthetic; the tissue is mechanically disaggregated with a Rigenera Activa device into fragments suspended in saline, giving a stated 50,000 to 100,000 cartilage progenitor cells per millilitre; and the suspension is injected into the damaged joint under ultrasound guidance as an outpatient procedure taking about thirty minutes. The site describes cartilage progenitor cells as early descendants of stem cells capable of becoming cartilage cells, and says they may also be taken from nasal septum, articular cartilage or the synovial membrane.
The site also describes intraosseous injections for bone augmentation - injections into the bone itself - and prolotherapy, including neural prolotherapy, and shockwave therapy delivered by its physiotherapists. All procedures are described as ultrasound guided, and the clinic employs its own principal sonographer.
The site cites published studies in support of the cartilage cell treatment, reporting significant improvement in pain, stiffness and physical function and increases in cartilage thickness and density in knee osteoarthritis, and reduced pain and disability in osteochondral lesions of the ankle. Those are the clinic's own summaries of third-party research and are not verified here; readers should treat them with the caution due to any claim of benefit that has not been independently checked. The site states that the clinic follows the rules of the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency and the Therapeutic Goods Administration, but publishes no prices and does not say when it was established.
The cell treatment page names the following.
The site's cell treatment uses cartilage progenitor cells taken from the patient's own tissue on the day and prepared mechanically, without laboratory culture.
The site names one doctor and a small team of allied health and imaging staff.
The clinic occupies premises at 87 Osborne Road, Mitchelton, Queensland 4053, open 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday and reachable on 07 3505 3999. The site describes an outpatient setting: the cell treatment is given in a single visit of about thirty minutes, and imaging and injection are done on site by the clinic's own sonographer. New patients are asked to complete an online intake form before an appointment can be booked, after which the clinic sends instructions for its online booking system. The site names no accreditation beyond stating that it works within Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency and Therapeutic Goods Administration rules, and lists no languages other than English.
The site gives no prices for the cartilage cell treatment or for anything else it offers.
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.