For the person facing a knee replacement, the back that ruins your day, and the conditions no one has answers for. Mesenchymal stem cells (the body's repair coordinators) from screened donors, grown, tested, and matched to your case in the lab at Hospital Angeles, Tijuana.
A body worth protecting, a joint that's had enough, or a diagnosis no one can explain.
You've been told replacement is next for your knee, hip, shoulder, or back. You're not against surgery. You'd just like a second opinion before the first incision.
Explore spine & joint →Nothing's broken, and you intend to keep it that way. You change the oil before the engine light comes on. Same logic, for the thing you ride, lift, and work with.
Explore IV longevity →A complex diagnosis, and more specialists than you can count. You want a straight read on whether cell therapy can help.
Explore systemic care →Every clinic you're comparing says "stem cell therapy". It sounds like one treatment. It's a shelf of completely different products. Two questions sort them out fast: who made your cells, and when did anyone last check they were alive? (Our answers: we did, and the morning of your treatment.)
The common model
The Celva model
The cells, the media, and the process: developed in-house, used nowhere else. The cell product you receive is unique to Celva.
Will it work for your knee, your energy, your case? That depends on which cells, at what dose, by which route. Here that's decided by the physician team reviewing your case, not by whichever package is on promotion.
For calming the whole system
Donated at full-term healthy births and screened against the same panel used for blood and organ donation. The youngest and most anti-inflammatory of the three. The foundation for systemic, neurologic, and autoimmune work.
For joints and structure
Adult-donor cells expanded in the lab, biased toward musculoskeletal repair signaling. The workhorse for spine, disc, and joint injections.
For cartilage itself
Mature cartilage cells, grown in the lab into a more active, chondroblast-like state (the young, dividing form of a cartilage cell). Added in almost every joint case.
Most cases combine more than one cell type, same treatment day, at a dose calculated for you. Which cells, in what mix, is the physician team's decision, made from your records and medical history.
You've read the sites that promise everything. (So have we. It's quite a genre.) Here's how it works at Celva: the physician team reviews every case before anything is scheduled, and a significant share of inquiries are declined.
So a yes here means the physician team believes it can meaningfully help, and it comes with a straight forecast: what to expect, when, and what this treatment won't do. If the answer is no, we say it plainly, and tell you why.
Treatment is about 25 to 30 minutes from downtown San Diego or the SAN airport, door to door. A Celva driver picks you up at the curb and drives you the whole way, including across the border. No pedestrian crossing, no transfers, medical lane on the return. Your only job is the back seat.
You're treated inside Hospital Angeles, a full hospital, not a wellness center. Programs abroad ask for a week of your life for a treatment that can be completed in a day. Here, most patients sleep in their own bed that night.
A coordinator gathers your history, imaging, and goals. Celva's physician team reviews your case independently and returns a straight recommendation.
Anywhere in Southern California: your home, a hotel, the SAN curb, even LAX. A private black SUV, and your driver takes you the whole way, border included.
A short check-in: registration, vitals, consent and a briefing. Every question is answered before anything happens, and you meet the physician before treatment.
IV infusion or image-guided injection in a hospital procedure suite, physician supervised. Your dose was prepared and verified for viability in the lab that morning.
Your driver takes you back once the attending physician signs your discharge; most patients are home the same day. Follow-up calls at 1 week, then at 1, 3 and 6 months, then once a year.
Five real Celva patients, in their own words. No actors, no scripts, and nobody jogging on a beach in slow motion.
Most patients research for weeks before reaching out. These are the questions waiting at the end of all those tabs, and we hear them on almost every first call. Straight answers, not reassurances.
No pressure and no commitments. Your first call is with a Celva patient coordinator who collects your information and passes it to Celva's medical team for independent review. Bring every question you have, including the one you think is dumb. (It isn't. We've heard it before.)