When cartilage in the joints breaks down, bone rubs against bone, causing pain. Inflammation and infection also cause joint pain.
Cartilage is connective, flexible tissue, helping joints move fluidly, cushioning the bones. It's hard for cartilage to repair itself.
Since cartilage doesn't heal well on its own, the main treatments are chondroplasty, marrow simulation, and implants.
“I’ve been very impressed with how CartiMax compares with the other techniques I’ve used over my 20 years of operative interventions in knees. The nice aspect of CartiMax is that it’s a single-stage procedure off the shelf with live, viable cells. These cells then regenerate normal articular cartilage that then protects the patient’s knee or any other joint body part we’re working on from injury. That cell grows, attached to the normal articular cartilage in the patient’s joint, allowing them to have full function within a 3 to 6 month period of time. It is very impressive how quickly people return to full function after CartiMax.”
– Dr. Deryk Jones, Orthopedic Surgeon