In oa the cartilage covering the ends of the bones starts to deteriorate and wear away.
Knee cartilage repair with stem cells.
For knee injections doctors often take stem cells from the patient s bone marrow fat tissue or blood.
Doctors who do the treatments cite anecdotal evidence as validation that the treatments work.
Reclaim mixes chondrons from debrided tissue with donor autologous stem cells to create a biologic filler for the repair of damaged knee cartilage.
Yes you read that correct 3 million.
Stem cell therapy could also potentially treat osteoarthritis oa of the knee.
The procedure can be completed in a single surgery.
The stem cells derived from these tissues primarily aid cartilage repair.
Reclaim cartilage repair technique.
Every year there are over 600 000 americans have knee replacement surgery and that number is expected to rise to 3 million by 2030.
And a number of people will have to have both knees treated so the actual number.