Knee Cartilage Repair
Eleanor Hayes
How long MACI lasts after knee surgery
MACI grafts improve substantially over two years then remain stable through a decade; 92% report lasting pain relief but only 76% return to sport.
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ChondroFiller / Liquid Cartilage
Eleanor Hayes
ChondroFiller and Arthrosamid Dual Therapy for Knee OA
Advanced knee osteoarthritis is not a single-tissue disorder: Grade III/IV disease simultaneously damages the articular cartilage (removing structural support) and the synovial membrane (perpetuating inflammation), leaving single-injection treatments unable to address both sites.
Knee Cartilage Repair
Eleanor Hayes
Can HTO Delay Knee Replacement
High tibial osteotomy delays or prevents total knee replacement in roughly 60–80% of appropriately selected patients by ten years. The procedure corrects varus deformity—the bow-legged misalignment concentrating destructive load on a single knee compartment—by shifting that load toward intact cartilage.
Joint Conditions
Eleanor Hayes
What six weeks of physiotherapy does for knee cartilage
Cartilage has no blood supply; movement pumps synovial fluid through its matrix to feed chondrocytes, so immobilisation after injury actively harms the tissue independent of the original damage.
ChondroFiller / Liquid Cartilage
Eleanor Hayes
Which ChondroFiller pathway suits your knee?
The ChondroFiller pathway for knee cartilage damage is determined by geometry: diffuse wear uses ultrasound-guided injection; focal, contained defects use either injection or the surgical Liquid Cartilage procedure.
Foot & Ankle Cartilage
Eleanor Hayes
When bone-plug transfer suits talar osteochondral lesions
Bone-plug transfer suits focal talar defects where subchondral bone is damaged, in younger active patients; it restores native hyaline cartilage and bone simultaneously, producing repairs that endure a decade where microfracture's fibrocartilage alternative breaks down in two to three years.