This week we will talk about the subject of a loose body in the knee, simply a piece of cartilage or bone that has broken off and is floating around within the knee joint causing havoc.

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 ...

Behind-the-knee pain could be due to muscle strain or arthritis—or something far more serious. Orthopedic experts say these ...

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 ...

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 ...

Patient’s with osteochondritis dissecans can experience symptoms similar to a meniscus tear in the knee. That is to ... the joint and remove the loose piece of cartilage as well as provide ...

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 ...