Where to discuss regenerative therapy in Glendale

Where to go from north Glendale

QC Kinetix (Peoria) is at 13128 N. 94th Dr., Suite 205, Peoria, AZ 85381. From Arrowhead, Loop 101 leads toward Thunderbird Road. The trip is roughly six miles. That's about 10–12 minutes in ordinary conditions. QC Kinetix offers visits with clinicians, called medical providers, who discuss regenerative treatments made at the clinic from your blood or tissue and placed by needle without surgery.

Call ahead if sitting makes your joint worse.

Where to go from central Glendale

Historic Downtown is roughly nine miles from the Peoria location. The direct route uses 59th Avenue and Thunderbird Road. It'll take about 18–20 minutes off peak. Traffic can keep your hip or knee bent longer. Use a small support if you've already got one.

You'll often find a familiar drive easier on the joint.

Where to go from south Glendale

QC Kinetix (Banner Estrella) is at 9305 W. Thomas Rd., Suite 460, Phoenix, AZ 85037. From the stadium district, 91st Avenue runs south to Thomas Road. The drive is about four miles. That's roughly ten minutes on surface streets. You'll prefer this route if you live near Westgate.

Less driving can make later visits easier.

What to bring to the clinic

Take your medicine names, x-rays and earlier visit notes. Write down the activity that first brought soreness. Add the treatments you've tried and how your joint felt afterward. Choose one goal, such as easier walking or better sleep. The shared clinic number is (602) 837-PAIN.

Your notes work like a memory aid during the exam.

Sources

1. The 2019 ACR/Arthritis Foundation guideline makes STRONG recommendations for exercise, weight loss in people with overweight or obesity, self-efficacy and self-management programs, tai chi, cane use, tibiofemoral bracing, topical NSAIDs, oral NSAIDs and intra-articular glucocorticoid injection in knee OA. Notably it does NOT strongly recommend any biologic injectable.

   Kolasinski SL, et al. — 2019 American College of Rheumatology/Arthritis Foundation Guideline for the Management of Osteoarthritis of the Hand, Hip, and Knee.. Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.), 2020. DOI: 10.1002/art.41142.

2. OARSI 2019 designates arthritis education plus structured land-based exercise (with or without dietary weight management) as CORE treatments for knee OA and strongly recommends topical NSAIDs (Level 1A), while strongly recommending AGAINST oral and transdermal opioids (Level 5). The treatments with the strongest evidence in this condition remain the least dramatic ones.

   Bannuru RR, et al. — OARSI guidelines for the non-surgical management of knee, hip, and polyarticular osteoarthritis.. Osteoarthritis and cartilage, 2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2019.06.011.

3. The Cochrane review of exercise for knee osteoarthritis found high-quality evidence that land-based therapeutic exercise provides short-term benefit in pain and physical function, sustained for at least 2-6 months after the programme ends, with mild transient soreness the only reported adverse effect across 45 trials. It is the best-evidenced treatment for this condition and it costs nothing per injection.

   Fransen M, et al. — Exercise for osteoarthritis of the knee.. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews, 2015. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD004376.pub3.

4. A randomized trial in the New England Journal of Medicine compared physical therapy against intra-articular glucocorticoid injection for knee osteoarthritis and found physical therapy produced better WOMAC outcomes at one year. When a clinic offers an injection, the comparator that matters is not 'nothing' - it is a course of supervised exercise.

   Deyle GD, et al. — Physical Therapy versus Glucocorticoid Injection for Osteoarthritis of the Knee.. The New England journal of medicine, 2020. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1905877.