Paul Handleman

R-​hip arthritis: Dr Handelman injected mesenchymal cells twice, and it slowly got better with localized heat and supplements over 2 years. I had no hope according to my in-​system doctors.
One thing that really helped during the procedure was my feet being massaged. It took away a great amount of any painful parts. The 2^nd time I had to ask the assistant for the massage. She really did not want to touch my feet. The first time, a different assistant, did the massage. Dr Handelman’s wife taught her how to do this. (BTW, my mother, an LPN, taught me how to massage feet, so I was able to show the second assistant how to do this.)
I am going for a 3^rd round next year. Will do a PRP in next few months.
Health Link through Dr Handelman is very legit. They can help you do your own health work when others don’t know how.
I hear Stanford is just beginning to do this for knees. I guess they are afraid of losing out on the money aspect. However, the experience and continued training Dr Handelman maintains is far ahead of any others.
Sincerely,
Tblackburn.

I have been a patient of Dr. Handleman’s for years. He has given me many rounds of Prolotherapy, PRP and stem cell therapies with excellent results. I have had treatments in my hips, knees, and low back all with great results. Highly recommended.

4 years ago I was diagnosed with cartilage degeneration in my left hip partly due to the 40+ years of active tennis playing (started playing when I was 5) and hereditary arthritis. As no other procedures existed in which to repair the cartilage, my orthopedic surgeon could only offer limited cortisone shots leading inevitably to hip replacement surgery. If you’ve never researched what is involved in hip replacement surgery I suggest you do so as this is an extreme operation for someone in my condition. Not to mention, but I will, that you’ll need to have it done again in 15 years.
Offered no other solutions, I didn’t give up. I researched other medical alternatives and found that much progress was being made in stem cell regeneration but initially in medical facilities in the mid-​West and East Coast. I stayed optimistic and was rewarded by finding Healthlink Medical Center in San Rafael. I attended a seminar being offered and hosted by Dr. Paul Handleman to further my education and to ask pointed questions specific to my condition. I found Dr. Handleman to be VERY knowledged and was extremely appreciative to the time he spent with me discussing how the stem cell procedure could prove to be advantageous. Within a year I made the decision to move forward with the procedure, worked with Dr. Handleman’s excellent and caring staff (Dustin, Jessica, Rachael and Natalie) to arrange the most convenient time that allowed me the necessary recovery period required and never looked back.
Now, over a week after having the procedure I am ecstatic to write that I no longer live with a dull throbbing pain shooting down my left leg. I had the procedure done on a Wednesday and was able to begin walking on my left leg that Saturday. Although I kept a positive attitude, I didn’t expect immediate results. After walking around my house I felt I must be dreaming as I no longer had the dull throbbing pain that I had been living with for the past 4 years. I started to cry. It’s been over a week now and I’m still living a dream! I walk with no pain. I sleep on my left side with no pain. I go up and down stars with no pain. My mental attitude has changed because I feel I’ve been given back my quality of life. No cortisone shot gave me back the use of my leg like stem cell regeneration has done. I know it’s early and time will tell but honestly I only see me getting better.
To anyone reading this who is wondering if stem cell regeneration is the way to go — I say emphatically — YES! At minimum, do your homework but don’t believe your only recourse is medical replacement surgery. There is hope and I found it through Healthlink Medical Center, Dr. Handleman and, to me, his award winning team!
Stay positive!

I had the extraordinary experience of Dr. Handleman treating both my knees and foot, first with prolotherapy, later in the week the Regenexx non-​surgical stem cell procedure and seven days later injections of super concentrated platelets taken from my own blood. All steps of these procedures were professional and almost painless. Dr. Handleman has a warm and professional staff of people who, quite in contrast to the preceding review, promptly scheduled my visits and procedures. The doctor himself inspired a great deal of confidence before this treatment, truly one of the few doctors I would entrust my wellbeing to. Chronic pain and limping have given way to incredible flexibility already in my knees even though the last procedure was finished yesterday and I was told noticeable results would be one to three months. I will write another review then but I can say now that this was an incredible experience! I truly have hope to walk normally again and frankly, there was no hope before this.

My husband visited Dr. Handleman after contacting the office numerous times and never receiving a return phone call or email. When we finally got an appointment, upon our arrival, without being notified, there was a cameraman there stating he was going to make a commercial of my husband’s visit from the point of checking in with the receptionist to the actual consultation with Dr. Handleman.
The office staff lost his medical records and MRIs a few times — not a good indication of things to come.
Dr. Handleman has no «bedside» manner, was aloof and disinterested in my husband’s needs and concerns.
My husband wanted a doctor to do stem cell replacement therapy for his condition, but with a staff and doctor unresponsive to even returning phone calls or addressing our concerns, this is NOT the office for us – esp. if there was an infection or anything else that went wrong. So, we opted NOT to use this doctor and this office, and located a more professional, compassionate and skilled doctor in the East Bay.