Lipogems
Your Own Powerful Fat
Lipogems is a cutting-edge technology that harnesses the natural and powerful reparative capability of your adipose tissue (fat) reserves. Adipose tissue’s innate healing potential has been used since WWI and extensively studied.
Lipogems as a Minimally Invasive Alternative to Surgery
Best Used If:
- You have chronic joint pain or dysfunction
- You have a soft tissue defect in your tendon, ligament or muscle
- Your normal daily function or physical activities are limited
- You have tried traditional treatments (physical therapy, NSAIDs, other injections)
- You want to avoid surgery
The Lipogems System Works By:
- Using saline to wash away impurities from fat
- Preserves the natural and beneficial properties of the tissue
- Creating an optimally-sized product that can be injected with a small gauge needle.
What are the Benefits of Lipogems?
- Simple and Quick Procedure
- Best Quality Tissue
- Pure
- FDA Cleared
Avid Sports Medicine Physicians
Dr. Veronica Jow, MD
Sports Medicine Physician
Dr. Jow is the founder and operator of Avid Sports Medicine. She created Avid as a space where patients could receive care for ALL aspects of movement-related injury under one roof.
Dr. Jow is a medical doctor who holds board certifications in Internal Medicine and Sports Medicine. While practicing sports medicine for the past 10 years in the Bay Area, she has taken care of the complete range of patients, from elite athletes, as the Associate Team Physician at UC Berkeley, to underserved patients, as a sports medicine specialist in Kaiser Richmond. Whatever the population, she strives to empower patients to recover through empathy, education, and partnership.
Our other specialties
Athletic Training
Athletic Trainers are certified healthcare professional who specialize in sports medicine.
Physical Therapy
Physical Therapists are movement experts who help people improve and maintain function and achieve goals.
Chiropractic
Chiropractors are healthcare practitioners with specific training in the musculoskeletal system, the combination of our bones, muscles and joints.
Sports Massage
Sports Massage is targeted bodywork and manual manipulation with the specific goal of improving athletic function.
Lipogems in San Francisco
Avid Sports Medicine offers lipogems services to neighborhoods in San Francisco, East Bay, North Bay, South Bay, and The Peninsula.