Dr. Drew Timmermans, ND
Drew Timmermans, ND, is the co-founder of Regenerative Performance in Gilbert, AZ, specializing in regenerative medicine. His expertise is deeply rooted in non-surgical treatments, focusing on alleviating chronic musculoskeletal and nerve pain. With a steadfast commitment to identifying and treating the underlying causes of chronic pain, Dr. Timmermans dedicates his practice to disrupting the status quo by challenging the conventional approach to pain management.
WORK WITH Dr. Timmermans
AREAS OF SPECIALTY
Chronic pain treatment & management
Dr. Timmermans uses a holistic, systemic approach to treating chronic pain.
Perineural Injection Therapy
Subcutaneous injections of low concentration dextrose to reduce neurogenic inflammation and pain.
Nerve Hydrodisection
Ultrasound-guided regenerative injections around nerves to treat neurogenic inflammation and pain.
Microfragmented Adipose Injections
Injections of minimally processed adipose tissue following a mini lipoaspiration procedure to help stimulate the body to heal itself.
Dextrose Prolotherapy
A nonsurgical technique involving the injection of dextrose into an injured area to stimulate healing.
Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP)
Injections of high concentration platelets and other growth factors from your own blood to help stimulate healing.
Scar Therapy
Injections within and around scars to improve fascial movement and reduce scar associated pain.
Bone Marrow Concentrate Injections
Injections of minimally processed bone marrow to help stimulate the body to heal itself.
Stellate Ganglion Block
Local anesthetic injection around the stellate ganglion to help reduce symptoms of PTSD
Peptide Therapy
Injections of peptides to help stimulate the body's ability to heal from chronic pain
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Dr. Timmermans
Dr. Timmermans received his naturopathic medical degree from the Sonoran University of Health Sciences (formerly Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine) in Tempe Arizona. He then went on to complete the first-ever residency in regenerative medicine and integrative pain management at the Neil Riordan Center for Regenerative Medicine at SUHS in Tempe, Arizona. During his residency, he received advanced training in ultrasound and fluoroscopic guided injections for conventional steroid injections, prolotherapy, platelet-rich plasma, and bone marrow concentrate injections, with a heavy focus in spine conditions. Following the completion of his residency, he sought out additional training in microfragmented adipose injections and nerve hydrodissection. As a naturopathic doctor, Dr. Timmermans’ approach to resolving chronic pain and disease focuses on finding and treating the root cause, assessing and treating the whole person, and helping the body heal itself.
DR. TIMMERMANS’
Back Story
Dr. Timmermans grew up in a small town about 30 km west of London, Ontario. He has always been intrigued with the inner workings of the human body, and ultimately received his Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology from the University of Western Ontario. During that time, he competed as a long sprinter in the 300m, 4x200m and 4x400m relay, and the 600m. During his last year, he anchored the 4x400m relay to a silver medal at the Canadian national championships, contributing to Western’s first ever Men’s National Championship Title.
After his undergraduate studies, Dr. Timmermans started working as a personal trainer for GoodLife Fitness, Canada’s largest health club company, with over 300 locations across the country. Within a short amount of time, Dr. Timmermans established himself as a leader not only at his gym, but across the entire company. After only 16 months, he was recognized as one of the Top 500 employees and Top 10 Personal Trainers within the company, nationwide.
During his time working as a personal trainer, Dr. Timmermans realized that he was passionate about helping people to improve their health through nutrition and exercise, and derived great joy when his clients would tell him that their doctors took them off blood pressure or lipid lowering medications. One of his clients suggested that he should look into naturopathic medicine because she could see his passion, and this was the turning point for him.
After learning about the philosophy and principles of naturopathic medicine, Dr. Timmermans immediately realized he had found his calling. Later that year he enrolled at the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine.
9 months before enrolling at SCNM, Dr. Timmermans was in a car accident that ended his track and field career with a lumbar disc herniation. He continued to suffer from chronic low back pain for the next 2 years and almost didn’t attend SCNM due to the inability to sit for long periods without significant pain. In his second year at SCNM, he attended a sports medicine conference hosted by the AAOM, where he was diagnosed with an iliolumbar ligament injury, which was treated the following day with platelet-rich plasma injections. Within three months, Dr. Timmermans was 100% pain-free and realized that his true calling in life was to help patients suffering from chronic pain with regenerative injections. The rest is history.
PHILOSOPHY
Dr. Timmermans is a practitioner with many different tools at his disposal to accomplish a specific goal with each particular patient. Because of this, each patient receives an individualized regenerative injection treatment approach to address their current pain.
WORK WITH Dr. Timmermans
What his patients say
I found Dr. Timmermans after some research. The previous year I had broken my femur, ankle and torn ligaments in my wrist. Previously I was a very active person who spent a lot of time training circus arts. My body wasn’t healing and after 6 months I was still walking with a cane and couldn’t even do a plank with my wrist at 90 degrees. Within 1 month of my procedure I was able to hold a freestanding handstand and walk without a cane. 3 months after the procedure I was able to get back to basing fliers in standing acrobatics, something I was afraid I’d never be get to do again
–M.V.
What his patients say
I live in CA and choose to fly to Arizona just to work with Dr. Timmermans. I found him via Instagram, and was impressed with his depth of knowledge there. Now that I’m his patient, I’m blown away by the amount of care that he takes in staying current on the latest research and relentlessly focusing on getting to the root cause of even my most ambiguous issues. I also really appreciate his focus on lifestyle shifts and longer-term, sustainable changes versus just telling me to take a bunch of pills. I’ve been working with him for about a year and couldn’t be happier.
- K.F.
What his patients say
What his patients say
I am very grateful to have found Dr. Timmermans at Regenerative Performance. His thorough communication and evaluation of my entire health picture has been tremendously helped me living with chronic pain challenges.
– T.H.
What his patients say
Dr. Timmermans has dramatically transformed my health and help me live more comfortably with, and reduced, my chronic pain. I have been blown away by the quality of care Dr. T provides his patients.
– C.E.
What his patients say
Excellent physician with cutting edge treatments that work! I have suffered for 30 years with severe chronic pain. Once treated with PRP and prolotherapy my pain is almost gone!
- S.S.
What his patients say
My health and performance are of the utmost personal importance. I only trust the most respected professionals within their fields with my body. When it comes to regenerative injection therapies, Dr. Timmermans is the only doctor I see. He has had a quantifiable positive effect on my sports injuries especially as it relates to regaining strength and ROM. His services are a tremendous asset to me.
– A.W.
What his patients say
I cannot thank Dr Timmermans enough for helping me find pain relief for my back and shoulders with a PRP treatment. Thank you doc, I appreciate the genuine help and I’m grateful I was able to find him. He also offers great knowledge and educational information on how to optimize your health.
– Y.T.
What his patients say
Dr. Timmermans is compassionate, VERY thorough, comprehensive (be patient with the long questionnaires he’ll have you fill out.. they’re for a reason) and passionate about what he does. He stays on top of the latest research and is even a regular speaker and educator on ultra-sound and injection therapies. I traveled from Los Angeles to see him and would recommend for anyone consider seeing him to travel from wherever necessary.
– V.
What his patients say
Dr. Drew is the authority on injection therapies. I wouldn’t consider anyone else. Top notch sports medicine! My first stop for injury recovery and optimal performance. I greatly appreciate [their] services. Life saver.
– A.W.
What his patients say
I was having knee pain for three weeks. My medical Dr. had told me it was mild degeneration due to age, gave me tylenol and sent me on my way. Dr. Timmermans, at Regenerative Performance,examined my knee and leg, spoke in depth with me and concluded that my issue was a nerve. After injections I could immediately bend and move my knee without the pain. Excellent, friendly, professional, sincere staff, and the Doctors know exactly how to help you.
– M.V.R.
What his patients say
Dr. Timmermans is a great doctor. He is detailed orientated and takes the time to explain this well. Definite recommendation!
– N.M.
What his patients say
I found Dr. Timmermans after some research. The previous year I had broken my femur, ankle and torn ligaments in my wrist. Previously I was a very active person who spent a lot of time training circus arts. My body wasn’t healing and after 6 months I was still walking with a cane and couldn’t even do a plank with my wrist at 90 degrees. Within 1 month of my procedure I was able to hold a freestanding handstand and walk without a cane. 3 months after the procedure I was able to get back to basing fliers in standing acrobatics, something I was afraid I’d never be get to do again
I live in CA and choose to fly to Arizona just to work with Dr. Timmermans. I found him via Instagram, and was impressed with his depth of knowledge there. Now that I’m his patient, I’m blown away by the amount of care that he takes in staying current on the latest research and relentlessly focusing on getting to the root cause of even my most ambiguous issues. I also really appreciate his focus on lifestyle shifts and longer-term, sustainable changes versus just telling me to take a bunch of pills. I’ve been working with him for about a year and couldn’t be happier.
–M.V.
- K.F.
Dr. Timmermans is a great doctor. He is detailed orientated and takes the time to explain this well. Definite recommendation!
– N.M.
What his patients say
I am very grateful to have found Dr. Timmermans at Regenerative Performance. His thorough communication and evaluation of my entire health picture has been tremendously helped me living with chronic pain challenges.
Excellent physician with cutting edge treatments that work! I have suffered for 30 years with severe chronic pain. Once treated with PRP and prolotherapy my pain is almost gone!
Dr. Timmermans has dramatically transformed my health and help me live more comfortably with, and reduced, my chronic pain. I have been blown away by the quality of care Dr. T provides his patients.
– T.H.
- S.S.
– C.E.
What his patients say
My health and performance are of the utmost personal importance. I only trust the most respected professionals within their fields with my body. When it comes to regenerative injection therapies, Dr. Timmermans is the only doctor I see. He has had a quantifiable positive effect on my sports injuries especially as it relates to regaining strength and ROM. His services are a tremendous asset to me.
I cannot thank Dr Timmermans enough for helping me find pain relief for my back and shoulders with a PRP treatment. Thank you doc, I appreciate the genuine help and I’m grateful I was able to find him. He also offers great knowledge and educational information on how to optimize your health.
Dr. Timmermans is compassionate, VERY thorough, comprehensive (be patient with the long questionnaires he’ll have you fill out.. they’re for a reason) and passionate about what he does. He stays on top of the latest research and is even a regular speaker and educator on ultra-sound and injection therapies. I traveled from Los Angeles to see him and would recommend for anyone consider seeing him to travel from wherever necessary.
– A.W.
– Y.T.
– V.
What his patients say
Dr. Drew is the authority on injection therapies. I wouldn’t consider anyone else. Top notch sports medicine! My first stop for injury recovery and optimal performance. I greatly appreciate [their] services. Life saver.
I was having knee pain for three weeks. My medical Dr. had told me it was mild degeneration due to age, gave me tylenol and sent me on my way. Dr. Timmermans, at Regenerative Performance,examined my knee and leg, spoke in depth with me and concluded that my issue was a nerve. After injections I could immediately bend and move my knee without the pain. Excellent, friendly, professional, sincere staff, and the Doctors know exactly how to help you.
– A.W.
– M.V.R.
