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Regenerative Medicine Takes Franchising by Storm rapidly in the last 10 years and resulted in a new medical specialty that is transforming how people are treating musculoskeletal injuries, chronic pain, and degenerative conditions. Regenerative medicine treatments that elite athletes have been using for years are now available to anyone who is willing to pay for it, largely in orthopedic offices or other medical practices.
That’s where QC Kinetix President and cofounder Tyler Vail, PA-C, met and worked with his business partners, Justin Crowell, CEO, and Richard Schaffer, Jr., MD, Chief Medical Officer. Vail was the Regenerative Medicine Director at the North Carolina medical practice where they worked and saw firsthand the tremendous results patients were experiencing with cellular therapies that allowed them to bypass surgery and a lifetime of pain medications or immobility.
QC Kinetix meets consumer demand for pain relief with fast-growing medical franchise. “My knees are older than my face,” laughs 32-year-old Casey Sietsema, a physician’s assistant and QC Kinetix franchisee in San Antonio, Texas. The Army veteran and former football player says he put a lot of wear and tear on his body in his hard-
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charging youth and came away with early arthritis and plenty of joint pain. That’s why he was willing to try regenerative medicine injections at QC Kinetix’s first clinic in Charleston, South Carolina, back in 2017. “Within two weeks, my knees were feeling better. Then I went back and had my ankle and shoulder done, no surgery,” said Sietsema. The practice of using natural biologic tissues and stem cells to repair or heal damaged tissues and joints has advanced
“All three of us really had a passion for this, and we believed there was an opportunity to create a practice that focused solely on regenerative medicine and offer it as a concierge type of service where patients pay cash and get a very high level of care and service,” said Vail. “We get to spend time with our patients, educate them, and walk with them through the treatments. In most doctor’s offices, you don’t get that kind of time.”
Testing the Water To test their business model, in 2017, they sub-leased space from a medical practice in Charleston for one Saturday per week and operated the first QC Kinetix, offering state-of-the-art treatments, including plasma-based therapies like PRP (Platelet Rich Plasma) and A2M (alpha-2-
