London Cartilage Clinic
Explore expert articles on cartilage care, regenerative treatments, and practical recovery advice from our specialist team.
An ultrasound-guided collagen injection addresses cartilage loss in the thumb basal joint by recruiting the body's own progenitor cells; a 2025 study of 64 patients documented sustained pain relief and grip recovery beyond two years.
Unlike pain-management injections, ChondroFiller is a collagen scaffold that enables the patient's own cells to regenerate damaged jaw cartilage, delivered in a single outpatient ultrasound-guided procedure.
ChondroFiller injection achieves symptom relief in 70–85% of patients, with a reoperation rate of 3–8% — substantially lower than microfracture's 41% or ACI's 37%.
Partial ACL tears develop silently through repetitive loading and remain unnoticed until roughly half the ligament's fibres fail. MRI misidentifies tear patterns in more than six out of ten cases, making these injuries easy to overlook.
Talar cartilage defects resist self-repair owing to poor blood supply and continuous mechanical stress. ChondroFiller is an injectable collagen that sets into a hydrogel and recruits the body's own repair cells, delivered by ultrasound guidance without surgery.
ChondroFiller is a CE Class III collagen scaffold; Liquid Cartilage is London Cartilage Clinic's keyhole surgical procedure that delivers that scaffold alongside biological adjuncts and, where indicated, the patient's own mesenchymal stem cells. This guide separates the two, sets out the device's CE credentials and published evidence, and explains UK self-pay costs for both the injection and the surgical pathway.
