Photo by Anita L. Sherman
An open house was held in June celebrating the opening of Virginia Regenerative Medicine and Spa. Marshall District Supervisor Mary Leigh McDaniel (pictured center left) was on hand to meet the new owners. Here she congratulates co-owner Jeanne Poss. Friends and family gathered in support.
Copied from Fauquier Times - August 30, 2018
From the outside, Virginia Regenerative Medicine and Spa looks like a lovely, private home. But looks can be deceiving.
Step inside and you’ll discover it’s a place that aims to make transformative things happen on a medical and aesthetic level, all tailored to help people look and feel better.
The homelike ambiance is missing the white, sterile environment of a clinic. Soothing tones of gray and white adorn the walls. Furniture is modern, comfortable and inviting. It’s all by design to create an alluring experience for customers.
Their lines of treatment are said to use cutting-edge technologies that you won’t find everywhere but used to help their clients achieve optimal results.
Co-owner Dr. Michael Poss has more than 20 years of experience as an anesthesiologist, practicing at the Virginia Brain and Spine Center as well as having an affiliation with Winchester Medical Center. A 1993 graduate of Wake Forest School of Medicine, with residency at University Hospital, he specializes in pain medicine and has training and experience in regenerative medicine.
Suffering from achy knee joints but fearful of going under the knife? A consultation with Poss could result in a recommendation for an alternative kind of treatment, such as stem cell therapy. It’s aim is to repair degenerative knee cartilage and partially torn tendons to provide pain relief when perhaps traditional treatments have proven unsuccessful.
Poss, along with his wife Jeanne, and other members of the staff, are trained and certified to provide treatments for degenerative conditions, arthritis and muscle and tendon injuries. Aesthetic treatments are available including “microneedling” with PRP or exosomes; various types of massage; non-surgical facelifts with “Ultherapy,” a brand of skin treatment using ultrasound; yoga, meditation, infrared sauna, hair restoration and treatments for cellulite and sexual optimization.
An open house this past June included family, friends, fellow Fauquier Chamber of Commerce members and others curious about the services the new Marshall facility offers.
Jeanne Poss, who said she has benefited from her husband’s stem cell therapy treatments on her shoulder, shared her success story. “It has worked for me…and our son…and we made a decision that this should be shared with a wider audience.”
Dr. Poss welcomed everyone who came, making time to give an extra smile to several of his grandchildren. They appeared delighted that they had a large home to roam and discover rooms that serve medical and aesthetic purposes.
Model, actress and designer Christie Brinkley, 64, is an Ultherapy advocate. Brinkley is featured on some of its promotional materials, touting the non-invasive, FDA-cleared treatment that aims to improve lines and wrinkles on the neck and upper chest. Ultherapy uses ultrasound to go below the skin’s surface to boost collagen.
While once considered more appealing to women, the goal of more youthful-looking skin is universal, said Jess Kuhl, a territory manager for Merz Aesthetics, a supplier of many of the products used at Virginia Regenerative Medicine and Spa.
For Kuhl, maintaining a competitive edge as a career professional is important and looks has a lot to do with that.
“It used to be predominantly women who were interested…but we’ve been seeing more and more men use this treatment,” said Kuhl adding, “There’s no downtime…you can have it done on your lunch break and return to work and carry on with your schedule…and the results are noticeable pretty quickly.”
Kuhl said he was impressed with the facility itself. “This is really a model,” said Kuhl “They’ve done everything right here with the soothing colors, the private rooms, the warm ambiance…that’s what people are looking for.”
“Business has been good,” said Jeanne Poss. “We’ve doubled the number of calls that we received since opening.”
Prices vary for the different treatments but as one commented at the open house, “I guess it depends on what you’re willing to pay to look and feel better about yourself…what’s the price for that.”