Cartilage Cell Therapy: Expectations vs Reality
Do you think that all the physical therapy, painkillers, and ice you are using for knee pain is not seemed to be helping? Did your doctor said that cartilage cell therapy is the only way left to relieve your knee pain? So, what is cartilage cell therapy ? It is a patient-specific regenerative medical treatment that involves naturally regrowing original cartilage. This therapy is used for treating articular cartilage of the knee, ankle and shoulder joints. It also helps to replace the missing areas of cartilage. The expectations Cartilage cell therapy is a new era of medical science and people usually have less knowledge of it. So, the expectations also revolved around their understandings. Here are few myths or expectations that people have: This treatment wont last long and the pain will be back It may not work for knees It is costly and for rich people only Success rate is low The reality Stem cells for cartilage surgery is an effective and the patient can get relief from knee ...