Alpine Spine & Orthopedics

With world-renowned expertise in minimally-invasive reparative tissue engineering approaches to complex injuries, we are Utah's premier spine, orthopedics, & regenerative medicine clinic providing cutting-edge diagnostics, imaging, and therapeutic interventions for a wide variety of issues including acute injuries, complex disorders, and chronic degenerative conditions. We care for each patient no matter how severe the problem-- from professional athletes to trauma patients seeking to recover basic functions in life-- your optimal health and well-being are our top priority and we provide personalized care and detailed treatment planning tailored to your specific injuries and conditions.

We treat a wide variety of complex spine, orthopedic, joint, nerve, & sports medicine injuries & pain conditions, with a focus on minimally-invasive image-guided interventional procedures to directly target and repair specific tissue injuries. We understand the many profound complexities of spine, joint, cartilage, tendon, ligament, bone, muscle, brain, and nerve injury mechanisms. With our deep and broad expertise, we help to not just relieve symptoms but also to more comprehensively discover the complex underlying pathological problems and enhance injury recovery and tissue repair using state-of-the-art technologies with minimally-invasive neurologic and orthopedic interventions. In addition to standard treatments, we also offer the most cutting-edge regenerative techniques with cell-based therapies and tissue-specific scaffolding to optimize repair, healing, and recovery.

We treat a wide array of injuries in the youngest to the oldest patients, from elite athletes to trauma patients just learning to use their limbs again, and we always provide the same advanced care and compassion that we would want for ourselves and our own family, as seen in our outstanding patient reviews. We understand the effects of extraordinary wear and tear on the body from trauma, training, age, and other factors and conditions. The human body requires some amount of stress and strain to improve strength and performance, yet not so much that it leads to chronic irrecoverable injury. The fine balance and intricate cycle of healing involves numerous cellular, biochemical, & physiologic pathways, and we can provide powerful tools from molecular signaling factors to cellular scaffolds using regenerative orthopedic procedures to overcome injuries and enhance recovery and tissue repair.

Dr. Richard J. McMurtrey MD, MSc is one of the only doctors in the world who has both neurosurgical and orthopedic surgery expertise as well as tissue engineering and stem cell research discoveries at some of the best university research labs in the world. He was the first to introduce the concept of "stem cell patching" using stem cells in scaffolding matrix as a minimally-invasive 3D tissue engineering approach to injury repair, and he has advanced the most cutting-edge minimally-invasive 3D image-guided procedures to address a wide variety of complex injuries in the least invasive and most reparative way possible.