Brits Re-Grow Knee Cartilage (written by Biloine Young @ OTW)
A 50-year-old British mother is pain free for the first time in six years, she says, after undergoing a revolutionary new treatment to have her damaged knee cartilage re-grown. This is the first time the re-growth treatment was used outside of clinical trials in Britain, according to the surgeon.
A surgeon at Spire Southampton Hospital, Hants, in the United Kingdom—the first to offer the revolutionary treatment— scraped a small amount of healthy cartilage, around the size of two pencil erasers, from the non-weight ...