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For patients living with pain
Repair the tissue. Not just quiet the pain.
Physician-led regenerative medicine for joints, tendons and chronic pain: imaging first, then a protocol written for you.
For persistent joint, tendon or back pain, injuries that will not finish healing, and people told that surgery or long-term medication is the only road left. Imaging, labs and a functional exam find the actual problem. PRP, exosomes, peptides, prolotherapy and physical therapy are combined in a protocol designed by Dr. Christian, a board-certified physical medicine and rehabilitation physician.
- Dual board-certified
- Johns Hopkins · Harvard · MIT Sloan
- 20+ years in practice
- Philadelphia, PA
Is this you?
The pain that has outlasted every appointment.
Each of these has a structural cause that imaging, labs and a hands-on exam can usually find. Finding it is what makes a protocol specific instead of another round of the same thing.
Knee, hip, shoulder or back pain that conservative care has not touched.
Rest, anti-inflammatories and a course of physical therapy, and it is still there.
A tendon or ligament that will not finish healing.
Tendinitis, a sprain or a partial rotator cuff tear that flares every time you push it.
Osteoarthritis, and a surgeon on the calendar you would rather not see.
You want to know whether repairing the joint can delay or avoid the operation.
A cortisone shot that worked, until it did not.
Or a medication you have been on longer than anyone planned.
An injury that healed on paper and not in practice.
Cleared to go back, and it still reminds you every day.
If more than one of these is you, the next step is an evaluation of the tissue itself, not another prescription for the pain.
Take the regenerative assessment
Asare B. Christian, MD, MPH
Founder, Aether Medicine · Philadelphia, PA
Why patients, athletes and clinicians seek him out
One of the most sought-after longevity physicians in the country.
Dr. Asare B. Christian is one of the few physicians in the nation holding simultaneous board certifications in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and Anti-Aging & Regenerative Medicine. Twenty years of clinical practice, training at Johns Hopkins, Harvard and MIT Sloan, and a practice built around one idea: measure what predicts the next twenty years, then act on it.
- Dual board-certified
- PM&R and Anti-Aging & Regenerative Medicine, held together by few physicians nationally
- Johns Hopkins · Harvard · MIT Sloan
- Residency, fellowship and MPH, and AI in healthcare at Sloan
- 20+ years
- Of clinical practice across rehabilitation, pain, metabolic and longevity medicine
- National speaker
- Regular presenter at A4M and AAPM&R; instructor at Rupa University
- Physician-led TPE
- One of few practices in the region offering therapeutic plasma exchange under a board-certified physician
- Referred by clinicians
- Physical therapists, dietitians and physicians send him the patients they cannot solve
“As a physical therapist, I often refer patients to physicians to collaborate, and my number one answer is Dr. Christian at Aether Medicine. The time, care and determination he shows his patients is uncanny.”
What a regenerative evaluation includes
Find the problem before treating it.
Most pain care starts with a prescription and works backward. This program starts with the tissue: what is damaged, how badly, and what it can still do. Only then does a protocol get written.
| Step | What happens | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Imaging and exam | MRI or ultrasound review, labs where indicated, and a functional assessment of the joint or region | Names the structure that hurts, so the treatment goes where the damage is |
| Protocol design | PRP, exosomes, peptides, prolotherapy and ozone, alone or combined, chosen for the condition, its severity and your healing capacity | A template protocol treats the diagnosis; this one treats you |
| Treatment series | A first session, then additional sessions as the tissue responds | Most regenerative protocols are a series, not a single injection |
| Rehabilitation alongside | Physical therapy, nutrition and lifestyle changes built into the plan | The tissue has to be loaded correctly to hold the repair |
| Tracking | Functional re-assessment, and repeat imaging when indicated | Progress is measured, and the protocol adjusts to the response |
Every protocol designed by the physician who examined you
Treatment rooms built for a series, not a single visit
Imaging review, labs and treatment under one roof
What to expect
How the program runs
- 1 of 4
Evaluation first
Your history, the imaging you already have, a functional exam and any labs the picture calls for. Nothing is injected before the problem is named.
- 2 of 4
A protocol written for you
PRP, exosomes, peptides, prolotherapy or a combination, matched to the condition, its severity and your goals, with the evidence for each explained plainly.
- 3 of 4
The series
A first treatment session, then additional sessions as the tissue responds, with physical therapy, nutrition and peptides working alongside the injections.
- 4 of 4
Re-assessment
Function re-measured, imaging repeated when it will change the plan, and the protocol adjusted to what your body is actually doing.
Aether Medicine · Checklist
Before You Say Yes to Surgery
The questions to ask before an operation or another injection, and what a regenerative evaluation looks at instead.
Asare B. Christian, MD, MPH · 2 pages, printable
Read before you decide
The white paper written for you.
- The questions to ask before an operation or another injection
- What a regenerative evaluation looks at
- Which therapies exist and where the evidence stands
- What to bring to the visit
It is yours. If it did not open in a new tab:
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Questions we hear
Straight answers, before the first visit.
Adults with joint pain, tendon or ligament injuries, arthritis, sports injuries, chronic pain that has not responded to conventional care, or injuries that are slow to heal. The evaluation decides; not every joint is a candidate, and we say so when it is not.
Many patients notice early changes in pain and mobility within 4 to 8 weeks. Deeper tissue repair and return of function typically become apparent over 3 to 6 months. Most protocols are a series of treatments, and progress is measured rather than assumed.
Regulatory status varies by modality. PRP is well established; others are emerging. We are transparent about the evidence base for each intervention we recommend, and about what is not yet known.
Regenerative medicine programs at Aether Medicine are typically cash-based. Some components may be eligible for HSA or FSA coverage. Costs are explained before anything is committed, at the first visit.
Telehealth Available
You do not have to live near Philadelphia to be our patient.
Hormone and metabolic care is mostly conversation, laboratory work and adjustment over time. All three travel well. Patients across Pennsylvania do this with us on video, with their blood drawn close to home.
Where this is available. Dr. Christian is licensed in Pennsylvania, so telehealth is available to patients who are in Pennsylvania at the time of the visit. If you are elsewhere, the office in the Philadelphia area sees patients in person.
- Step 1
A consult on video
Your history, your symptoms and what you want to change, with the physician rather than an intake form.
- Step 2
Labs drawn near you
We send the order to a draw site close to home. You do not travel for a blood test.
- Step 3
Results read together
We go through the panel on screen, and you leave with the plan written down rather than a portal message.
- Step 4
Follow-up on video
Re-testing and adjustments happen on the same schedule they would in the office.
Repair, not masking
Find out what is actually hurt.
A few minutes for the assessment. One evaluation to know what can be repaired.
Tell us where it hurts, for how long, and what has been tried. We will contact you within one business day.
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