ChondroFiller® Injection · Self-Assessment

ChondroFiller® Injection Self-Assessment

Name: ChondroFiller® Injection Self-Assessment
Creator: Prof Paul Lee

Five questions, around three minutes. Identify whether a Prevention, Regeneration, Combination, or Support ChondroFiller® injection pathway is the right fit for your joint, before booking a consultation with Prof Paul Lee.

How This Self-Assessment Works

Five questions

Around three minutes. Each question maps to one of the four pathways based on goals, joint history, and treatment timing.

Joint-agnostic

ChondroFiller® injection is used in knees, hips, ankles, shoulders, and smaller joints. The questionnaire works whichever joint you are asking about.

Shared decision

The result is a starting point for a consultation with Prof Lee, not a clinical recommendation. Imaging and examination shape the final injection plan.

ChondroFiller Self-Assessment

Could a collagen regeneration pathway help your joint?

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Question 1 of 5

What is your main goal for your joint right now?

Please select an option before moving to the next question.

Understanding Your ChondroFiller® Injection Pathway

Every patient reaches a ChondroFiller® injection from a different starting point. Your answers route you to one of four pathways. Here is what each one means in practice and what the consultation will focus on.

Prevention-First

You are acting early, before significant cartilage damage progresses. A ChondroFiller® injection now adds structural support to the joint surface and provides a scaffold your own cells can populate, while the symptom picture is still mild.

Regeneration-First

You have an identifiable cartilage defect and want to address it directly. The ChondroFiller® injection delivers an acellular collagen scaffold into the defect, where your own cells migrate in and build hyaline-like cartilage over time.

Combination Pathway

Your joint may benefit from more than one ChondroFiller® injection: bilateral knees, multiple sites within the same joint, or a staged plan across visits. The consultation maps the sequence so injections build on each other.

Support Pathway

Symptom relief and day-to-day function are your priority right now. A ChondroFiller® injection can still play a role by reinforcing the joint surface, often paired with other non-surgical options while regeneration progresses in the background.

Clinical Evidence Behind ChondroFiller® Injection

The pathway model is grounded in real-world outcomes from over a decade of ChondroFiller® injection use across multiple joints.

19,000+

Cases Worldwide

+30 pts

Knee IKDC Improvement

+33 pts

Hip Harris Score Gain

MOCART MRI (max)

What Is a ChondroFiller® Injection?

A ChondroFiller® injection is an acellular collagen gel delivered directly into a cartilage defect. It gels in minutes, leaving a three-dimensional scaffold where your own cells migrate in and rebuild a hyaline-like joint surface over the following months.

Injectable scaffold

No incision. The acellular collagen gel is delivered into the defect under image guidance and sets in minutes.

Your cells do the work

Native cells migrate into the scaffold and build new cartilage. There is no donor tissue and no foreign cells.

Hyaline-like result

The regenerated tissue resembles the gold-standard joint surface, rather than the weaker fibrocartilage seen with simpler repair techniques.

A note on scope: this page covers the ChondroFiller® injection pathway only. If your consultation suggests pairing the injection with Stem Cell / Medicinal Signaling Cell co-delivery, Prof Lee will discuss the separate LiquidCartilage™ pathway at that point. The self-assessment above is designed to route you toward the right injection-only pathway first.

Questions About the Self-Assessment

These are the questions patients most often ask before completing the ChondroFiller® injection self-assessment or after seeing their pathway result.

How accurate is this ChondroFiller® injection self-assessment?

The questionnaire suggests a pathway based on your goals, joint history, and what you want from treatment. It is not a diagnosis and does not confirm that a ChondroFiller® injection is suitable for your specific joint. The pathway is confirmed at consultation with examination, imaging review, and a discussion of options.

I got the Support pathway. Does that mean a ChondroFiller® injection will not help me?

Not at all. The Support pathway simply means symptom relief and function are the priority right now. A ChondroFiller® injection can still reinforce the joint surface and support regeneration. Prof Lee may also pair it with other non-surgical options so that you feel better in the short term while the scaffold does its job in the background.

Can I retake the questionnaire?

Yes. Your answers save automatically as you go, so you can come back to where you left off. Once you complete the questionnaire your progress is cleared, and you can start again from question one any time.

Do I need an MRI or scan before booking a ChondroFiller® injection consultation?

Imaging is helpful but not required to book. If you already have an MRI report, X-rays, or an arthroscopy report, bring them to the consultation so Prof Lee can map the right ChondroFiller® injection plan from the first appointment.

Which joints can be treated with a ChondroFiller® injection?

The ChondroFiller® injection is joint-agnostic at a technique level. It has been used in knees, hips, ankles, shoulders, and smaller joints. Suitability for your specific joint depends on defect size, location, and surrounding cartilage health, all of which are assessed at consultation.

What is the difference between a ChondroFiller® injection and LiquidCartilage™?

A ChondroFiller® injection is the scaffold on its own. LiquidCartilage™ is our combination protocol that delivers ChondroFiller® with Stem Cell / Medicinal Signaling Cells in a single-stage procedure for more advanced cases. This self-assessment is focused on the ChondroFiller® injection pathway. If your consultation suggests a combination approach, Prof Lee will discuss LiquidCartilage™ separately.

Clinical Disclaimer (ChondroFiller® Injection Self-Assessment)

The ChondroFiller® injection self-assessment is provided for educational and shared decision-making purposes only. It does not constitute medical advice, does not provide a diagnosis, and does not confirm that a ChondroFiller® injection is suitable for your specific joint. The pathway labels (Prevention, Regeneration, Combination, Support) describe broad approaches to joint preservation and are not a clinical recommendation.

Final injection plans depend on specialist consultation, clinical examination, imaging review, defect size and location, joint mechanics, treatment timing, and your personal goals, in accordance with UK regulatory and medico-legal standards. Outcomes vary between patients, and the published evidence base reflects our specialist clinic's ChondroFiller® injection protocols and patient population. Where a consultation suggests a combination approach, this is discussed as a separate LiquidCartilage™ pathway and is outside the scope of this self-assessment.

Prof Paul Lee explaining MRI imaging during a London Cartilage Clinic consultation

You have your pathway. Now confirm it.

The self-assessment points at a direction. A consultation with Prof Lee turns that direction into a specific ChondroFiller® injection plan, with imaging, examination, and the joint in front of him.

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