Although stem cells can be differentiated into chondrocytes in vitro or aid cartilage regeneration in vivo their potential for osteoarthritis management remains limited as cartilage regenerated by stem cells fails to fully recapitulate the structural and biomechanical.
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.
Yes you read that correct 3 million.
Reclaim mixes chondrons from debrided tissue with donor autologous stem cells to create a biologic filler for the repair of damaged knee cartilage.
And a number of people will have to have both knees treated so the actual number.
Every year there are over 600 000 americans have knee replacement surgery and that number is expected to rise to 3 million by 2030.
Reclaim cartilage repair technique.
In oa the cartilage covering the ends of the bones starts to deteriorate and wear away.
Stem cell therapy could also potentially treat osteoarthritis oa of the knee.
The procedure can be completed in a single surgery.