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Regenerative medicine is a modern and innovative form of treatment that involves regenerating the patient's own biological tissue, to repair, replace and encourage healing of cells that have deteriorated due to injury or disease. Cartilage regeneration takes healthy cells from the damaged knee, cultures them for around four to six weeks, and then injects them into the joint to regenerate with the other cartilage.
Cartilage regeneration procedures generally involve replacing articular cartilage, which cushions bone endings in your joints. When this cartilage breaks down or becomes damaged, bones are less protected from rubbing together, which causes pain.
Because cartilage has a limited blood supply, it has restricted self-repair capacity. Regeneration can therefore be an advantageous treatment that may postpone, or in some cases eliminate, the need for joint replacement surgery while improving symptoms and overall quality of life.
Our specialists are leaders in cartilage regeneration and joint pain treatment, with years of focused clinical experience. We provide an exclusive private service tailored to each patient to help deliver the best possible outcome from cartilage regeneration injection treatment.
Whether your cartilage damage comes from injury or a degenerative condition such as arthritis, our surgeons can provide effective treatment designed to reduce pain and increase your range of motion so you can return to normal daily activity.
For focal cartilage damage that needs a surgical solution, our flagship procedure is STACi — single-stage, scaffold-based cartilage regeneration for any joint, and the modern evolution of ACi and MACi.
Pricing
From £3,000 to £28,000 at London Cartilage Clinic. Comparison guide covering microfracture, AMIC, MACI, ACI, OATS, ChondroFiller and STACi, with the London Cartilage Clinic price for each.
You may have more options than you think
At London Cartilage Clinic we follow a structured clinical framework across four areas of treatment. Before recommending a single procedure, we assess which combination of approaches gives you the best outcome.
Protect what you have. Slow degeneration and manage symptoms.
Fix specific damage. Torn tissue, unstable joints, structural problems.
Rebuild lost tissue. Biological treatments that stimulate new growth.
When other options are exhausted. Joint replacement as a last resort.
This treatment can be applied across multiple joints. Select yours to see the full range of options we offer, organised by clinical approach.
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Clinical updates, cartilage treatment guidance, and recovery-focused articles from our specialist team.
Two patients with identical knee MRI findings can experience markedly different pain levels; determining which structural change is actually causing symptoms requires clinical assessment, not the report alone.
Osteochondral allograft replaces both cartilage and underlying bone, making it the primary choice for large knee defects where cartilage-only procedures like MACI cannot address bone damage.
Physiotherapy resolves talar cartilage lesions in roughly half of cases. For those with persistent pain, ChondroFiller—an injectable collagen scaffold—provides a third option: a physical framework that the body's own repair cells colonise and gradually replace with new cartilage over one to two years.
