Stemulus Innovative Healthcare

The clinic sits in a medical complex on East Missouri Avenue, a few miles from local attractions and restaurants. It combines regenerative medicine with naturopathic care and describes its visits as individualized and unhurried, with treatment shaped around each patient. The site also states that its staff has more than 25 years of combined experience in the stem cell field and that it has treated over 2,500 patients in the US and Europe, reporting no serious adverse events among them.

The approach is multi-disciplinary and aimed at finding the source of a condition. Depending on the patient, care can draw on diet, lifestyle, exercise, supplementation, regenerative therapies, clinical psychology, extracellular matrix formation, exosomes and nutraceuticals.

Stem cell therapy is the clinic's main regenerative offering, and the site says the cells come from the patient's own body or from other sources. The umbilical material includes Wharton's Jelly and cord blood, along with placental, amniotic and exosome-based products. Donors are healthy mothers giving birth by live cesarean section who choose to donate; they complete a detailed medical history questionnaire and a blood test for communicable diseases. Tissue goes to an affiliated lab the site describes as AATB certified within 24 hours of collection, is stored at -80 degrees Celsius before shipment, and is then kept in liquid nitrogen at the clinic until use. Stem cells are described as isolated and processed in laboratories rated ISO3.

Stem cell treatment is given intravenously to all patients, with other injection or administration methods added as the treating physician chooses. PRP is included at no extra cost with stem cell treatment and is also offered on its own. According to the site, stem cell treatment typically costs $5,000 to $12,000, with an average patient cost of around $9,000 depending on what is being treated, and PRP typically ranges from $500 to $2,000 per joint. The site states that stem cell procedures are not FDA approved, are not intended as a cure for any condition, and are generally not covered by insurance in the United States except for blood cancer treatments. The clinic does not treat patients with active cancer.

To start, candidates complete an initial contact form or call, receive a Medical Information Form, and are reviewed by the team. A free online form can help people find out whether they may qualify for stem cell therapy. Afterward, the clinic provides post-procedure plans meant to support continued improvement for months. The site says patients typically notice improvement about two to twelve weeks after treatment, with healing continuing for up to a year, and that side effects are generally minor, such as redness, rash, itching, swelling, bruising or nausea. These are the site's own claims, not guarantees.

Each patient is treated as an individual, with a multi-disciplinary search for the source of disease. The clinic describes its approach as among the most unique in the industry.

Treatment rooms include two paintings by Kathryn Henneman, commissioned for one of the rooms.