This is an update of a previous review I posted in 2017.
I started going to Dr. Handleman at Advanced Regenerative Orthopedics in 2012 in their first office for a variety of issues. Over the years I've had countless PRP procedures there and always refer people I meet to his business. The procedures were helping and giving me my body back. Over time they have gotten much more expensive than when I began. From around $1,000 for my first procedure to over $3,000 for my most recent one, even with the discount they say they've given me.
I have reason to believe in more recent years, after my hostile divorce in 2018, they've been doing shady stuff around my procedures. I wear eye covers for the blood draw and the procedure because I hate needles and blood. I come by myself, so I don't know what they're doing.........how much blood they're taking, what tests they're running on it, if they're putting anything in instead of taking it out. For all I know, they could be loading me up with pain killer. For over 2 months after the procedure all I felt was pain in my wrist. Now I'm feeling pain in my shoulder and upper left SI Joint and more pain in my wrist. The pain in my upper back and neck ligaments is back. Maybe it's because the pain killer they shot me up with is wearing off.
My last procedure was for my SI Joints, right shoulder and a tendon on my inner left wrist. The right SI Joint feels better. Part of the left one feels better, but the upper part feels the same or worse. Same with the left wrist. They felt better initially after the procedure, but instead of healing as time went on, the pain and discomfort came back. Especially in the SI Joint. The wrist was always painful. The right shoulder had instability and still has instability. Pain seems to be coming back. I believe I was given a placebo or a cortisone shot into the upper left SI Joint, left wrist and right shoulder. I mainly came in for the wrist. It was an acute injury doing something. When testing it before the procedure, he pulled it very hard and injured it even more than it was.
After spending all that money, time of the procedure and recovery, going through the pain and discomfort of the procedure and recovery, my wrist, right shoulder and upper left SI Joint is worse than it was before the procedure. If they used a cortisone shot, that kills stem cells and tissue and makes the problem even worse after it wears off. Ditto if they injected me with pain killer.
I know at their home base in Colorado, when they were testing the CCJ procedure, they gave some patients the real treatment(free) and some a placebo without them knowing which one they received. They were all aware they would get one or the other, but weren't told which one they got. Everyone knew the ones that got the placebo would be invited back for a free procedure. I believe they did the same thing to me without my knowledge or consent. I don't have any proof and they know it. My advice is to do what I'm going to do going forward and stay away from this business. Go to another Regenexx facility at a minimum or a completely different provider altogether.
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