Orthopaedic surgical practice at Kogarah and Bankstown in New South Wales, led by Dr Christopher Reitz, which lists stem cell treatment among its patient services.
St George Orthopaedics is the practice of Dr Christopher Reitz, an orthopaedic surgeon who, according to the site, trained at UNSW Sydney and is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. The site lists consulting rooms at St George Private Hospital in Kogarah and at Bankstown Hospital Medical Centre, both in New South Wales.
The bulk of the practice described on the site is conventional orthopaedic surgery: hip and knee replacement including robotic assisted knee replacement, shoulder and elbow surgery, minimally invasive foot and ankle surgery, trauma, limb reconstruction and sports injuries. Alongside these the site lists two injection based treatments, platelet rich plasma (prepared from the patient's own blood) and stem cell treatment.
The stem cell treatment page describes stem cell therapy as a form of regenerative medicine that uses the body's own healing mechanisms. It distinguishes embryonic stem cells from adult, or somatic, stem cells and states that the adult cells used are mesenchymal stem cells drawn from the iliac crest of the pelvis, which is bone marrow. The page says the approach is applied to degenerative conditions of the shoulder, knee, hip and spine and to soft tissue and bone injuries, and it refers in general terms to orthopaedic, cardiovascular, neuromuscular and autoimmune conditions.
The site makes no claims about success rates or outcomes for stem cell treatment, and it gives no information about cost. Readers should note that the stem cell page is a short general explainer rather than a description of a defined treatment programme, and that the site does not say how many such procedures the practice performs or under what regulatory arrangement.
The conditions below are those named on the practice's own specialties and stem cell pages.
According to the site, stem cell treatment at this practice uses adult mesenchymal stem cells taken from the patient's own bone marrow at the iliac crest of the pelvis.
The site presents a single named surgeon.
The site describes a consulting practice rather than a standalone treatment centre. Two rooms are listed: Level 5, Suite 14 within St George Private Hospital at 1 South Street, Kogarah, and Suite 3 on the ground floor at 68 Eldridge Road, Bankstown, in the Bankstown Hospital Medical Centre. Surgery is associated with those hospital sites. The site does not describe operating theatres, laboratory facilities or accreditation of its own.
The site gives no fees, no price ranges and no statement about what stem cell treatment costs or whether any of it attracts a rebate. Prospective patients would have to ask the practice directly.
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.