What We Treat

NECK PAIN FACET DISEASE

Neck pain can be caused by a variety of conditions. One is facet disease, or arthritis of the neck. These are joints that allow you to turn your head left and right and up and down. Just like a knuckle in your hand, they can become arthritic, painful, and enlarged over time.
Patients will complain of pain that stays primarily in the neck but may also radiate up towards the base of the skull and out to the shoulder blades.
Pain from diseased facets can be severe. Thankfully we have treatments that can help. We have seen great results injecting specific type of platelets or stem cells into aging facet joints great results.

NECK PAIN RADICULAPATHY

Radiculapathy is a term used to describe a pinched nerve as it exits the spine. The nerves pass through an opening called the neural foramen. Patients may have a bulging or collapsing disc, an enlarged facet joint, or both which can narrow this opening. Bone spurs can also form, all of which can put pressure on the nerve. The diagram on the lower right illustrates a herniated disc pressing on the nerve at it exits.

NECK PAIN DEGENERATIVE DISC DISEASE

Discs in the spine serve as both shock absorbers and spacers that lie between the bones of the spine. They have a fibrous outer ring called the annulus and a jelly middle called the nucleosus pulposis. The outer ring is constructed like a tire, with alternating fibers that mimic that or a radial tire lying on its side. Over time these radials can snap, and the disc begins to bulge.
The outer portion of the disc has pain fibers while the inside does not. As the disc degenerates it starts to expose the outer pain fibers to the inner jelly middle, which is full of inflammatory mediators. Once that occurs, the disc itself can become painful and is now known as discogenic pain. Until recently we never had a good treatment for this. Recently we have started injecting PRP and stem cells into the disc with incredible results!

Regenerative Medicine Advantage

Regenerative medicine is an all-natural biologic therapy using your own body’s stem cells or platelets. This therapy is designed to treat connective tissue ailments by supplementing the injured or damaged tissues with vital repair cells. Injections help restore powerful growth factors and proteins that help to fight inflammation and potentially repair damaged tissues throughout the body.

C0-1-C1-2 Joint Pain Patterns

Atlanto-Occipital Joint Injection

Atlanto-Axial Joint Injection

Cervical Interlaminar Epidural Steroid Injection

Cervical Selective Nerve Root Block

Cervical Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injection

Cervical Facet Joint Pain Patterns

Cervical Facet Injection

Cervical Medial Branch Block

Cervical Radicular Pain Patterns

Cervical Radiofrequency Ablations

HIP & JOINT PAIN

The Hip is a large joint that can cause pain. Repetitive use can cause bursitis or inflammation of the joint, tear of the labrum (joint supporting tissue), as well as degenerative arthritis. We will perform and history, physical exam, and live bedside ultrasound evaluation to diagnose and treat your condition.

Minimally invasive injections can be used to both diagnose your pain as well as treat it.
No matter what your condition our doctors can treat whatever modality is necessary to regain proper function with regenerative and restorative treatments.

REGENERATIVE ADVANTAGE

Regenerative medicine is an all-natural biologic therapy using your own body’s stem cells or platelets. This therapy is designed to treat connective tissue ailments by supplementing the injured or damaged tissues with vital repair cells. Injections help restore powerful growth factors and proteins that help to fight inflammation and potentially repair damaged tissues throughout the body.

Hip Bursitis

Hip Joint Pain Patterns

Osteoarthritis is the degeneration of the protective cartilage that covers the ends of the bone joints. Including the lower back, hip, knees, hands and neck but can affect any joint in the body. This is also referred to as degenerative arthritis or the “wear and tear” arthritis.
This occurs where the protein that forms the cartilage deteriorates and forms flakes or tiny cracks. This eventually results in partial to total cartilage loss. Once there is loss of cartilage, there’s friction between the bones and this can trigger to bony growths to develop around the joints and cause pain.
Regenerative medicine has been known to treat arthritis in many areas with sometimes as little only 1 treatment.

During the past several years, much has been written about regenerative medicine and its potential effectiveness in the treatment of sports injuries.

Many famous athletes — Tiger Woods, tennis star Rafael Nadal, and several others — have received regenerative medicine for various problems, such as sprained knees and chronic tendon injuries. These types of conditions have typically been treated with medications, physical therapy, or even surgery.
Some athletes have credited these therapies with their being able to return more quickly to competition.

PRP Facials
PRP and stem cells are injected by multiple tiny punctures under the dermis, with or without topical local anesthesia. The process is painless if sufficient topical anesthesia is applied. When injected into the damaged area, it stimulates the tissue, causing mild inflammation that triggers the healing cascade. Thus, new collagen begins to develop.
As this collagen matures, it begins to shrink and tightens and strengthens the skin, as well as the tendons and ligaments of the damaged area when it is injected at that level.

Hair Restoration

RMSSM has a natural solution for Hair Loss. We use platelets and stem cells to activate the cells already present on the scalp (progenitor cells) and hair follicles. When these regenerative properties are administered, they trigger the cells already present in the follicles to stimulate chemical signals to nearby follicle cells that have deteriorated during the aging process. Then the follicles will regenerate and once again produce healthy and strong hair as a response to these chemical signals. Stem Cell Therapy has the ability to build or reinforce the hair follicle papilla. This is essentially a base of hair follicle bulb that is made of connective tissues and capillary loop. Given that it is mainly connective tissue, the stem cells prove to be really useful in the regeneration and repair of the hair follicle papilla.
Our medical data has established that a combined program with the help of Stem Cell Treatment directly administered to the balding area, is highly effective for fast and long term improvement hair growth. The effects of stem cell therapy for Hair Loss are ongoing, long term, and permanent. The stem cells used in our therapy are taken directly from the patient so there is no risk of tissue rejection.

Complete Physical Therapy Evaluations
All evaluations are scheduled for one hour. They are complete, thorough and designed to determine the best physical therapy interventions to help the patient achieve his/her goals. We promptly mail copies of the initial evaluation to the referring physician/s for his/her records.

Quality Care
Patients are treated by highly trained manual physical therapists. They treat each patient at one-on-one appointments. These therapists have all completed extensive continuing education and specialize in rehabilitation therapy for people with injuries from motor vehicle accidents, workplace accidents, complicated spinal disorders, sports injuries and post-surgical cases.

Flexible Scheduling
We have early morning and evening appointments available for the convenience of our patients. We are also willing to accommodate patients’ schedules with appointments outside of our normal business hours if needed. Patients will be offered an evaluation time within 24 hours of calling our clinic. We keep a prompt schedule; most patients wait less than 5 minutes before seeing a therapist. Five Denver area locations in Lakewood, Cherry Creek, Wheat Ridge, Stapleton and Lone Tree make access convenient.

Committed focus on return to work/life/sport

Through our multidisciplinary approach we have the unique ability to get patients better faster and back to work, daily activities and recreational/sport activities quickly.

Physical Therapy Services Available

• Motor vehicle injury treatment
• Workplace injury treatment
• Neck/back pain treatment
• Sports-related injury treatment
• Post-surgical rehabilitation
• Total joint replacement rehabilitation
• Posture consultation
• Headache treatment
• Vestibular rehabilitation (for dizziness, vertigo)
• Work hardening
• Functional Capacity evaluations
• Trigger point dry needling