Dr. Drew Timmermans

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Dr. Drew Timmermans Naturopathic Doctor striving to address the root causes of chronic pain

I specialize in orthobiologic injections such as PRP therapy, platelet lysate, stem cell therapy, and ultrasound-guided nerve hydrodissection. Since 2015 I've treated 1,500+ cases and performed 10,000+ injections, and we track outcomes in a national registry so I can share real data, not marketing hype.

10/12/2026

If you have been told your knee is headed for a replacement, the patients I keep thinking about are the ones who heard the same thing years ago. Because pain was their main problem rather than major functional limits, they were candidates for an intraosseous stem cell procedure instead. Their own bone marrow concentrate was placed inside the bone underneath the cartilage, where a big part of the arthritis process lives. Years later they are still doing fantastic. Individual results may vary. But the question worth asking is whether your knee could be a candidate for this approach before a replacement gets scheduled.

10/10/2026

This is a full walkthrough of the two hour new patient evaluation at Regenerative Performance. It starts with 30 to 45 minutes of history with Dr. Timmermans, moves into a hands-on physical exam that can run 15 to 45 minutes depending on complexity, then, in most cases, a diagnostic ultrasound, then about 15 minutes on orthobiologic options and candidacy. The order matters: your story and the exam findings build the hypothesis, and the ultrasound helps confirm which structures may be generating the pain. When you are ready to talk through your case, schedule a discovery call.

10/09/2026

If you keep wishing your doctor would actually take their time, you may have noticed the ones who do often work outside insurance. That's not a coincidence. Reimbursement is built around short appointments. A thorough chronic pain workup takes a detailed history, a hands-on exam, and often diagnostic ultrasound. Operating outside insurance is what lets a provider give a complex case that kind of time and follow the exam instead of the billing code. So when you compare clinics, ask how long the new patient evaluation actually is.

10/08/2026

You are trying to recover, and the protein just is not happening from food alone. Whole food comes first, and when someone falls short we are fine adding a shake: whey if dairy agrees with you, plant-based or bone broth protein if it does not. When even shakes are too filling, powdered essential amino acids on top of meals can close the gap. There is literature in trauma and post-surgical patients suggesting this approach may help reduce muscle wasting. Before adding anything, do the simple step first: add up your actual daily protein from whole food.

10/07/2026

You got a PRP injection in your knee, and it's easy to assume it treats every source of pain in and around that joint. The reality is that it treats the joint itself: the cartilage, and the synovium, the sac that holds the joint fluid and can get inflamed and painful. That is real treatment for real pain generators. But the ligaments along the sides of your knee (your MCL and LCL), the tendon in front (your patellar tendon), the fat pad, and the small nerve near your kneecap all sit outside that sac. If one of those is part of your pain and the PRP never went directly into it, there is a very low chance that part of the pain improves. So a knee PRP plan should be able to name which structures it's treating, inside the joint, outside it, or both.

10/05/2026

You got the PRP injection, you gave it time, and the pain is still sitting right where it was. Before anyone blames the PRP itself, the first question worth asking is whether the diagnosis was accurate. What I call the pain-generating diagnosis, the structures causing your pain, is different from the diagnosis that comes from imaging. Imaging shows structure. It does not show pain. That one question is the concrete starting point for any failed PRP conversation: which structures were identified as generating my pain, and how?

10/02/2026

Your shoulder hurts, your MRI shows a supraspinatus tear, one of the rotator cuff tendons, and everyone blames the tear. But a tear can sit there and cause none of your pain, while a suprascapular nerve entrapment, a pinched nerve near your shoulder blade, may be the real source. Not a lot of providers are talking about this, which is why I like to focus on it so much. Just knowing it exists puts one more question on the table at your next visit: could my suprascapular nerve be part of this?

09/30/2026

Big tendon tears with a wide gap typically require a surgeon to reconnect and repair the tissue. For smaller, partial-thickness tears of tendons and ligaments where physical therapy and steroid injections have already failed, surgery is often offered as the final step. Many of these last-ditch surgeries for smaller injuries may become less common over time as alternatives develop.

09/29/2026

For decades, a narrow narrative has dominated chronic pain care: operate, inject steroids, medicate, or give up because "nothing is wrong" on scans. This story hides the body's capacity to heal and the impact of choices you can make yourself. Not every condition can avoid surgery or medication, but there is a wide space between "do nothing" and "go under the knife," and it often lives in approaches that go beyond the conventional playbook.

09/28/2026

You went through a PRP injection and the pain barely changed. One of the questions that rarely gets asked afterward is whether a sufficient dose of platelets was ever delivered into the structure that was treated. Dose means two things here: the concentration of platelets in the PRP, and the total number of platelets that end up in the damaged tissue. For a tendon or ligament tear, early research puts the concentration benchmark around 1.2 billion platelets per milliliter. Total dose is a newer, still emerging area of research, and the trend is that a higher total platelet dose raises the percent chance of a positive response. Before anyone blames your body, take one concrete question into your next appointment: how many platelets, per milliliter and in total, went in?

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726 N Greenfield Road, Suite 101
Gilbert, AZ
85234

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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+14805084226

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