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ChondroFiller28 Jul 2026

Why ChondroFiller injection comes before knee surgery

Many patients with focal knee cartilage defects do not require surgery; ChondroFiller injection is appropriate first-line treatment, providing a collagen scaffold that recruits the body's own progenitor cells to lay down new cartilage over six to twelve mon...

John Davies

OATS / Mosaicplasty27 Jul 2026

OATS for Hip Cartilage Repair

OATS transplants healthy cartilage and bone from a low-load hip region into a focal defect, restoring durable hyaline cartilage rather than the fibrocartilage that develops after marrow-stimulation procedures.

John Davies

ChondroFiller27 Jul 2026

Ultrasound guidance for ChondroFiller hip injection

ChondroFiller's collagen scaffold attracts progenitor cells to repair cartilage, but only if placed directly over the lesion—a requirement real-time ultrasound guidance confirms, whereas unguided hip injections miss their target in up to 30% of cases.

John Davies

OCA26 Jul 2026

OCA for Post-Traumatic Knee Cartilage Defects

Post-traumatic cartilage defects exceeding 2–4 cm² require fresh osteochondral allograft (OCA); the transplanted chondrocytes remain viable only 28 days, creating a narrow window for procurement, matching, and surgery.

John Davies

ChondroFiller26 Jul 2026

What rules out ChondroFiller injection

Defect size rarely determines ChondroFiller candidacy; ligament stability, coronal alignment, and meniscal function must instead be in place. Three absolute contraindications—murine collagen allergy, active inflammatory arthritis, terminal osteoarthritis—cl...

John Davies

Regenerative Medicine26 Jul 2026

How T2 Mapping Finds Cartilage Damage Before Symptoms

T2 mapping detects cartilage damage at the biochemical level—loose collagen, free water—that is invisible to conventional MRI but precedes symptoms and structural loss by years.

John Davies

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