London Cartilage Clinic
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Patellofemoral pain typically stems not from the knee but from weak hip abductors that fail to stabilise the femur, allowing the kneecap to drift out of alignment during weight-bearing.
ChondroFiller hip injection delivers a purified collagen matrix that recruits the patient's own cells into cartilage defects; candidacy extends from focal lesions to advanced osteoarthritis, with adjacent studies showing 89% of patients achieve clinically meaningful improvement.
Stem cells injected into the knee are washed away by synovial fluid within hours; ChondroFiller, a collagen scaffold that self-gels in place, traps the patient's own marrow cells in the defect long enough to regenerate cartilage.
Single-treatment autologous chondrocyte implantation processes harvested cartilage cells in theatre on the same day, collapsing the two-operation pathway into one and reducing estimated treatment costs by around 60%.
Adult articular cartilage has no blood supply and depends entirely on movement to draw oxygen and nutrients from synovial fluid — the compression-and-release cycle of loading acts like a sponge squeezed under water. Six weeks of structured physiotherapy nearly halves functional impairment scores in grades I–III knee osteoarthritis.
Hip cartilage lacks blood supply; once damaged, stress concentrates at the defect edge, widening the lesion in a self-reinforcing cycle that leads inevitably to bone-on-bone contact and osteoarthritis unless treated.
