PIER BOUTIN MD, a graduate of the University of Florida is board certified in orthopedic surgery. She has a fellowship in Total Joint Replacements and further specialization in Sports Medicine. She taught at the University of Florida Medical School in Gainesville, Florida. Her work published in The Spine Journal, changed the way pathology is used in hospitals across the United States. She also did early research in the field of using autologous tissue growth factors to enhance tissue healing. This type of research led to the development of the Ultra Cocktail with Platelet Rich Platelet, a powerful cocktail of growth factors that can dramatically enhance tissue recovery and joint healing.
This research was published in the American Journal for Bone and Mineral Research, “Osteogenic Effects of Transforming growth factor beta with hydroxyapatite”. She is also often a keynote speaker on Orthopedics and has appeared many times on television.
Prior to joining The UltraWellness Center, Dr. Boutin practiced for 12 years in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in five local hospitals. She later joined the Berkshire Orthopedic Associates in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. During her practice she treated NFL players, Olympic athletes, professional dancers, gymnasts and international figures.
Emerging medical science allows us now to go beyond treating symptoms to treating the causes of the disease. This new science is called Functional Medicine. During the last four years Dr. Boutin has shifted her practice from one based on surgery for symptoms to one based on identifying and rectifying the underlying cause. She received specialized training through the Institute of Functional Medicine. Her goal is to help patients restore bone health; eliminate muscle and joint pain without surgery.
Dr. Boutin offers a combined approach to avoid surgery for arthritis, other sports and trauma injuries. An appointment with Dr. Boutin is not a typical orthopedic visit. She takes the time to thoroughly investigate the patient and explores for possible causative factors for the symptoms. She guides the patient through lifestyle changes, diet, physical therapy, exercise programs, and in some cases growth factor treatment, Regenerative Cell Therapy.
Advances in Joint and Tissue Injury and Pain: Regenerative Cell Therapy
Cell therapy injections are composed of autologous (from your own body) blood by-products, rich in growth factors and platelets and until recently only available in a hospital setting. These growth factors (Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor VEGF, Platelet Derived Growth Factors PDGF, Insulin-Like Growth Factor ILGF and Transforming Growth Factor Beta TGF) assist the body in repairing itself by stimulating stem cells to regenerate tissue.
Cell Therapy injections to the joints and tendons improve osteoarthritis, sports and trauma injuries. This great, natural, healthy alternative to cortisone injections or surgery for injuries including tendinitis, bursitis and low back pain gives surprisingly good results for many people. Often patients can avoid arthroscopy and/or total joint replacement surgery.
Dr. Boutin believes the patient as a whole as well as the orthopedic issues must be addressed. Treating a painful, arthritic joint with surgery or medication, while often helpful does not suffice. For long-term success, the general inflammation causing the arthritis must be identified and reversed.
Dr. Boutin thinks every patient would benefit from a personalized program combining traditional orthopedic treatment and integrative functional medicine.
Haiti
Dr. Boutin was the first orthopaedic surgeon to respond to the devastating earthquake on January 12, 2010. She landed in the middle of the night in a sea of people with infected open wounds and fractures. She initially operated on the emergent cases in a make shift room and then organized an operating room suite where 5 separate surgical teams could operate and attend to the wounded. She continues to work to support and to rebuild the essentially destroyed Hôpital Universitaire de l’Etat d’Haiti (HUEH), the only teaching hospital of Haiti.
