A sports medicine and urgent care practice in Portales, New Mexico, offering ultrasound-guided platelet rich plasma injections alongside a less clearly described stem cell treatment.
Sievers Sports Medicine is a practice at 304 South Main Avenue in Portales, New Mexico, in the east of the state. The site describes a broad community musculoskeletal and urgent care service rather than a specialist cell therapy clinic: sports medicine and diagnostics, pain treatment for the back, neck, shoulder, elbow, wrist, hand, hip, knee and ankle, urgent care including casting, X-rays and wound care, sports and commercial driver medical examinations, intravenous nutrient therapy, percutaneous needle tenotomy, and regenerative injections.
The platelet rich plasma (PRP, prepared from a sample of the patient's own blood) side is described in unusual and welcome detail. The site explains that blood is drawn from the patient and spun in a centrifuge to concentrate the platelets to around four to five times their normal level, and that the concentrate is then injected into the injured area under ultrasound guidance. It states a procedure time of thirty to sixty minutes and that patients typically return to normal activities within days, with healing taking weeks to months. The conditions named for it are tendon injuries and tendinitis, ligament sprains and strains, joint pain and osteoarthritis, cartilage damage, rotator cuff injuries and meniscus tears. Hyaluronic acid injections are also offered.
The stem cell side is much thinner. The site says only that stem cell therapy uses stem cells capable of developing into various cell types to help repair tissue. It does not state where the cells would come from: bone marrow, fat and donor tissue are all unnamed, and there is no account of how the cells would be collected, processed or counted. The directory's earlier note that cells are harvested from bone marrow or fat is not confirmed by the site itself. A prospective patient should ask directly what tissue would be taken, how it would be processed, and whether the product is autologous (from the patient's own body) or allogeneic (from a donor).
Joel Sievers is named as the clinician and the site states he has performed platelet rich plasma treatments with ultrasound guidance since 2009. It also claims he has more extensive training and experience in this than anyone else in New Mexico or West Texas, which is the practice's own assertion and cannot be verified from the site. No prices are published, though the site links to a page about insurance; for a clinic that also does urgent care, physicals and casting, it is likely that some services are insured and regenerative injections are not, and that is worth confirming. No founding year or languages are stated.
The site names the following conditions in connection with its regenerative injections and wider musculoskeletal work.
The site explains its platelet rich plasma preparation in some detail but describes stem cell therapy only in general terms, without saying where the cells would come from.
The site names one clinician.
The practice occupies premises at 304 South Main Avenue in Portales, a small city in Roosevelt County in eastern New Mexico near the Texas border. The site describes a combined sports medicine clinic and urgent care facility with on-site X-ray, casting and diagnostic capability, and ultrasound used to guide injections. No laboratory or cleanroom is described. A centrifuge is implied by the description of platelet rich plasma preparation, which is carried out on site on the day of treatment.
The site publishes no prices for platelet rich plasma, stem cell procedures or any other treatment. It links to a page about insurance but does not name the carriers it accepts or say which services are covered, so a patient should ask specifically whether regenerative injections are self-funded.
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.