Osteochondritis dissecans is a form of loose body which occurs when a piece of cartilage sloughs off into the joint leaving a “pot hole” in the hard articular cartilage of the knee.

This week we are going to discuss a common and painful problem of the knee which can be particularly problematic in those who are active or who abuse their knees in their activities of daily ...

She told me to see orthopaedic surgeon David Johnson, who had performed pioneering surgery on her knee. Mr Johnson explained the original fall had caused a tear in the cartilage, the piece of ...

had lived with incessant pain in her left knee. The popping and clicking she felt, resulting from a torn piece of cartilage ...

“[Swope] is playing with a piece of loose cartilage floating in his knee and he’s playing with a completely torn lateral meniscus in his left knee,” Schertz said. “Has a complete te ...

Your knee, however, will start to become more stiff and swollen over the next two to three days. While you may still be able to walk with a torn meniscus, if you don’t get it treated, a small piece of ...

We will then send this healthy cartilage sample to a lab for three to five weeks to grow more healthy cells. Then, we will inject these newly developed cells into your knee. Your meniscus is a ...

Replacement cartilage engineered from the nasal septum -- the cartilage wall that separates the left and right airways in your nose -- can be used to repair even the most complex knee injuries, ...

Then through another incision in the knee joint, we insert an instrument known as a gouge to shovel out a healthy piece of cartilage - usually the size of a little fingernail - removed with tiny ...

Injuries to the articular cartilage in different joints, including the knee, are painful and limit ... It involves extracting the cells from a tiny piece of the patient's nasal septum cartilage ...

After further evaluation, which included an MRI, Orlando Magic guard Jalen Suggs has been diagnosed with a trochlea cartilage injury in his left knee ... to remove a loose piece of cartilage ...

and a loss of cartilage will eventually lead to arthritis. The new knee repair process involves extracting cells from a tiny piece of a patient’s nasal septum, and then growing the cells in a ...