A pain management practice in Bristol, Tennessee offering bone marrow aspirate concentrate injections, prepared from the patient's own pelvic bone marrow, for bone and joint problems.
Pain Medicine Associates is a pain management practice in Bristol, in north-eastern Tennessee, with a directory-listed address of 350 Blountville Highway, Suite 105. Its website appears to have been restructured: several pages, including the regenerative services page this directory entry was originally based on, returned page-not-found errors during research. The content summarised here comes from a patient information document on bone marrow aspirate concentrate that the practice still publishes on its own site.
That document describes an autologous treatment, meaning the material comes from the patient's own body. It states that bone marrow fluid containing stem cells is drawn from the pelvis with a hollow needle under sedation, then spun in a centrifuge, with the Arthrex Angel system named as the equipment used to concentrate the cells. The concentrate is then injected under ultrasound or X-ray guidance. Platelet rich plasma (PRP, concentrated platelets prepared from the patient's own blood) appears in the directory's earlier notes but was not confirmed on the pages accessible during research.
The document is unusually forthcoming about risks and limits, which is worth noting for a reader comparing options. It lists active infection and cancer as reasons the procedure should not be done, says pelvic pain lasting about a week is a common after-effect, and names bleeding, infection and nerve injury as possible complications. Its claim is framed cautiously — that stem cells can help the healing of some bone and joint conditions and offer a less invasive alternative to open bone grafting — rather than promising results.
The range of potential uses the document lists is broad and extends well beyond joint pain, covering fracture healing, cartilage repair, osteonecrosis (bone death from loss of blood supply), long-standing tendon problems, wounds, hair loss, lung disease and nerve damage. A reader should treat the wider items on that list with care: they are described as potential applications of the technique in general rather than as services the practice has shown it provides. No clinician is named in the document, and no prices or insurance information are given.
The practice's bone marrow document lists these as potential applications of the technique rather than as a confirmed service menu, so a prospective patient should ask which of them the practice actually treats.
The practice's own patient document states that bone marrow fluid containing stem cells is drawn from the pelvis with a hollow needle under sedation, spun in a centrifuge and concentrated using the Arthrex Angel system before being injected under imaging guidance.
No clinician is named in the patient document reviewed, and the site's provider pages were not reachable during research, so a prospective patient would need to ask who performs the procedure.
The practice is an outpatient pain management centre in Bristol, Tennessee, with a directory-listed address of 350 Blountville Highway, Suite 105. The bone marrow procedure described involves sedation and imaging guidance, implying a procedure room or theatre setting, and the practice names the Arthrex Angel system as the cell concentration equipment it uses. Beyond that the website gives little detail, and several of its pages were unreachable during research, so a prospective patient should confirm the current address, opening arrangements and facilities by telephone.
The practice publishes no prices and the document reviewed makes no statement about cost or insurance, so a prospective patient would need to ask the practice directly what the treatment costs and whether any part of it is covered.
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.