Dr. Jerry Hric Treats YOU as Family
For more than four decades, Dr. Jerry Hric has dedicated his life to caring for patients, from fragile premature infants weighing barely a pound to active adults hoping to stay on the golf course, hiking trail, or pickleball court. His unique skill in performing the most technical procedures on 1–10 pound infants is what gave him the conviction and confidence to transfer them to regenerative medicine.
Every patient gets unhurried visits, honest guidance, and a clear plan — never a hard sell.
For over 30 years I cared for some of the smallest and most fragile patients in medicine. Those years taught me precision, patience, and the importance of doing only what truly benefits the patient. Today I bring those same principles to regenerative medicine: taking time to listen, recommending the least invasive effective treatment, and telling patients honestly when another approach is better.
How I Found Regenerative Medicine
A couple of years ago, at a Navigator physicians' conference in Colorado Springs, I met Dr. Mark Johnson. We had both become Christians through the Navigators back in medical school. He is a regenerative medicine physician who performs PRP and prolotherapy.
So I flew to Nashville once a month and had several PRP treatments — knees, hips, lower back, shoulders. It made me feel twenty years younger. Like the last time I ran a marathon. I am 69.
My wife Susan, who is a similar age, had been limping for a year with hip problems. A physical therapist did not help. A sports medicine physician did not help. Neither did the orthopedic surgeon and his steroid shots. So Susan and I took a few “prolotherapy dates” to Nashville together, and her hip pain and her limp went away.
That is why I do this now.
Since then I have gone to many conferences to learn the art and the skills this work requires: ultrasound, cadaver lab, and a week-long mission trip to Honduras treating innumerable patients. That trip has been sponsored for forty years by the Hackett Hemwall Patterson Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin — the world-renowned training center for prolotherapy. Five of the best regenerative medicine physicians taught me for the entire week, at a one-to-two ratio.
I have also been trained in MyACT — myofascial acoustic compression therapy — a noninvasive method that stimulates growth factors the way PRP and prolotherapy do.
This winter I start training for the Loveland Blitz Triathlon in June 2027.
A Different Approach to Care
We're here to help our neighbors in Northern Colorado heal well, move freely, and live fully, caring for the whole person along the way.
The least invasive path that can realistically help — always our starting point.
Clear information and fair expectations, even when the answer is “not yet.”
Dr. Hric performs every treatment himself — your care is never handed off.
Body, mind and spirit — we treat you as a person, not a diagnosis on a chart.
“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters.”
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Wood Orthodontics, 1349 Water Valley Parkway, Suite 101, Windsor, CO 80550