Accelerated Healing
Living with persistent pain or slow recovery is frustrating, especially when conventional treatments fall short. The Marcus Institute's Accelerated Healing program offers an integrative approach that aims to support your body’s healing and may provide longer-lasting relief for certain conditions. We combine metabolic health optimization with advanced, image-guided injection therapies to speed up your body's natural healing process and provide lasting relief.
This innovative program, trusted by professional athletes to optimize recovery times, is now available to help you overcome complex pain and tissue repair challenges.
Our Approach to Accelerated Healing
True healing involves more than just treating a symptom; it encompasses the entire person. Our patient-focused approach examines all the factors that contribute to your health and hinder wound healing, including metabolic function, nutrition, lifestyle, and stress. We treat the whole person, not just the injury.
We build a collaborative relationship, listening to patients who feel dismissed by other providers and taking your experiences seriously. Together, we work to uncover the root causes of your pain and create a personalized path to wellness.
We use diagnostic musculoskeletal ultrasound to improve diagnostic confidence and guide targeted care. This enables us to address the entire complex system, not just an isolated joint, ensuring more effective and targeted therapies. Our methods combine the best of conventional medicine with evidence-based complementary therapies, using sophisticated techniques such as regenerative medicine and image-guided injections to stimulate your body’s innate ability to heal.
Conditions We Treat
Our team specializes in diagnosing and treating complex musculoskeletal and pain-related conditions that have not responded to traditional therapies. We focus on:
Spine Pain
- Chronic neck and back pain
- Sciatica
- Cervical radiculopathy
Major Joint Pain
- Knee, hip, shoulder, elbow, and ankle issues
- Rotator cuff injuries
Arthritis Management
- Inflammation and degenerative conditions
Myofascial Pain
- Targeting specific trigger points and muscle pain
Musculoskeletal Injuries
- Ligamentous tears
- Tendonous tears
- Labral tears
- Soft-tissue injuries, such as hamstring and quadriceps tears
Diffuse Muscular Pain
- Fibromyalgia and other overuse conditions
Complex Cases
- Conditions that have not responded to traditional therapies
Accelerated Healing Services and Treatments
Your treatment plan is highly personalized, designed to stimulate tissue repair, reduce inflammation, and restore function. Based on your unique diagnosis, it may include a combination of the following advanced therapies.
Regenerative Injection Therapies
- PRP (Platelet-Rich Plasma): We use a concentration of your own blood platelets to accelerate the healing of injured tendons, ligaments, muscles, and joints.
- A2M (Alpha-2-Macroglobulin): This is a naturally occurring protease inhibitor concentrated from your blood that targets inflammatory proteases. It’s an emerging option being studied for osteoarthritis and tendon disease.
- Prolotherapy: An injection therapy that stimulates the body’s natural healing process to strengthen and repair weak or injured joints and ligaments.
- PPX Therapy (Patient Pure X (Extracellular Vesicles)): This cutting-edge therapy utilizes extracellular vesicles to transmit signals to cells, thereby promoting tissue regeneration and reducing inflammation.
Advanced Injections and Procedures
- Ultrasound-Guided Injections: Using ultrasound can improve accuracy, delivering treatment exactly where it's needed for maximum effectiveness and safety.
- SGB (Stellate Ganglion Block): Used to treat pain conditions related to the sympathetic nervous system. SGB is also being studied and used off‑label for PTSD symptom reduction; we offer this within an integrative care framework.
- Peptide Therapy: Specific peptides are used to signal cells to perform functions like reducing inflammation and promoting tissue repair.
Supporting Therapies
- Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment (OMT): This is a hands-on approach that diagnoses and treats restrictions in the musculoskeletal system, thereby improving function and alleviating pain. We coordinate closely with OMT‑trained colleagues when manual therapy can complement your plan.
- Intramuscular (IM) Therapy: Customized formulations, such as NAD, are utilized to support cellular energy, reduce inflammation, and provide essential nutrients for optimal healing and recovery.
- Nutritional Counseling: We provide expert guidance on anti-inflammatory diets and targeted supplements to optimize your body’s internal environment for accelerated wound healing.
Patient Testimonial
"For around two years, I have been seeing Dr. Collins. He has been evaluating my bloodwork, vitamins, supplements, diet, medications, and overall health. Our conversations have focused on optimizing my general experience with life: better sleep, more drive and focus, less pain, more energy. Dr. Collins has always been available.
After many months of watching my bloodwork and giving recommendations, we discussed a long-term pain I have had in my left shoulder. After we spoke, we scheduled an A2M procedure at his facility this past November. The pain had been with me since May.
The procedure lasted approximately 2 hours. The pain during the procedure was bearable. After two days, I felt virtually no pain in comparison to what I had dealt with. I kept myself out of the gym for almost 3 weeks. I would say, nearly 8 weeks after the procedure, my pain is at least 80% less severe than it was." — RR
Meet Branson J. Collins, M.D., FAAMFM, ABAARM
A triple board-certified physician in anesthesiology, pain medicine, and anti-aging and regenerative medicine, Dr. Branson J. Collins combines expertise in interventional and functional medicine to enhance patient health. A former chief resident at Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Hospital, he holds advanced training in pain management and integrative medicine. He applies the principles of integrative medicine to optimize the health and well-being of each of his patients