A sports medicine and physiotherapy clinic in Box Hill, Melbourne, whose site says it uses mesenchymal stem cell therapy for selected joint and tendon problems.
Sportsmed Biologic is a multidisciplinary sports medicine practice at Suite 1G, 116-118 Thames Street, Box Hill, in Melbourne's east. The site describes a clinic that combines sport and exercise medicine physicians, visiting orthopaedic surgeons, physiotherapists, a podiatrist, an exercise physiologist and a nurse under one roof, with rehabilitation, clinical Pilates, concussion management, workplace injury care and health screening alongside its injection treatments.
Its cellular therapy page sets out four biological treatments. The site states that it uses mesenchymal stem cell therapy for selected joint and tendon problems. It offers Orthocell treatment, which it describes as treating tendon conditions such as Achilles and patellar tendinopathy using the patient's own healthy tendon cells. It offers platelet rich plasma, prepared by drawing the patient's blood and concentrating the healing factors in it. And it offers nSTRIDE autologous protein solution, which the site describes as a preparation of the patient's own anti-inflammatory and growth-factor proteins used for knee osteoarthritis.
The site is notably sparing with detail about the stem cell treatment. It does not say where the mesenchymal cells are taken from - whether bone marrow, fat tissue or a donor source - how they are prepared, which joints and tendons count as 'selected', or how many treatments a course involves. It publishes no outcome claims and no success rates for any of these treatments, which is to its credit, but it also gives a reader no way to judge what is on offer. Those questions would need to be put to the clinic directly.
The clinic also lists shockwave therapy, cortisone injections, viscosupplementation and high power laser among its therapies, and treats the usual range of musculoskeletal complaints: ankle and foot, elbow, wrist and hand, hip, groin and buttock, knee, leg, neck and back and shoulder pain, along with strains, sprains, stress fractures and tendinopathies. The site does not say when the practice was established, lists no languages and gives no prices.
The site groups the problems it treats by body region.
The site says it uses mesenchymal stem cell therapy for selected joint and tendon problems, and separately offers a tendon cell treatment using the patient's own cells, but gives no detail about either.
The site names its medical and surgical staff, alongside a larger allied health team of physiotherapists, a podiatrist and an exercise physiologist.
The clinic occupies Suite 1G at 116-118 Thames Street, Box Hill, Victoria, and is reached on 1300 858 860. The site describes a single site bringing together consulting rooms for sport and exercise physicians and visiting orthopaedic surgeons with physiotherapy, clinical Pilates, podiatry and exercise physiology, so that injection treatments and rehabilitation can be given in the same place. No accreditation, year of establishment or list of languages appears on the pages retrieved. The same building address is used by Melbourne Stem Cell Centre Research, a clinical trials organisation listed separately in this directory.
The site gives no prices for stem cell therapy or for any other treatment, and does not say whether any of it attracts a Medicare rebate.
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.