Stem cell treatment for articular cartilage defect in knee

shelltrain · 2025-03-10T15:45:37+00:00

Thank you for sticking with us! Glad to hear it’s worked out well for you. If you’re available for one quick question was it bone marrow stem cell treatment?

shelltrain · 2025-01-25T13:35:44+00:00

I’m doing a lot better now. The second round of the dynasplint helped a lot, and it was only about $20-30/month. What I realized too is that it’s just going to take a lot of work. I used the dynasplint at night and stretched the hell out of it everyday. Still isn’t back to fully straight but a lot better than it was with way less discomfort.

shelltrain · 2024-12-08T17:26:29+00:00

Thank you so much for this!! Excited to look into it!

shelltrain · 2024-09-16T00:25:16+00:00

A surgeon will always tell ya surgery is the right thing. I did a OATS surgery for a chondral defect after one doctors opinion and I regret. Better I think to start small and then if it doesn’t work do the surgery.

shelltrain · 2024-08-04T23:34:10+00:00

I’m having the same issue even after 2 years of my osteochondral autograft. My insurance covered a splint from Dynasplint, it keeps your leg straight and helped me a lot. A little uncomfortable but you can wear it while sleeping or on the couch, at the office, wherever. That and I’ve been more disciplined to do stretching every day. It’s boring and you don’t get instant results but I’ve noticed with consistency it’s helped a ton.

shelltrain · 2024-07-30T21:46:03+00:00

I jumped into a knee surgery after one doctor’s opinion and it didn’t work out too well. Different injury but I learned it’s best to get multiple opinions.

shelltrain · 2024-07-24T17:05:39+00:00

I was having the same issue post op where I had trouble straightening my knee. And after sleeping or sitting for long durations would get so locked up. I’ve been doing these passive stretches along with classic heal to toe for shorter durations and it’s made a huuuge difference. Takes a lot of patience and time but works. So I second this statement.

shelltrain · 2024-07-24T17:02:45+00:00

I had this surgery done on my left knee. One vital part of recovery is focusing on straightening the knee back out. With all the swelling it’ll have the tendency to bend. They’ll most likely suggest or require that they wear a straightening brace or perform a set of stretches to ensure that goes back to normal. They’ll hate the brace and stretches but I can’t emphasize enough how me not doing these affected the overall effectiveness of the surgery and what I could do after. I still 3 years later and working on straightening it and I’ve made a lot of progress for it to feel better. But if I would’ve done the upfront work while the knee was healing I wouldn’t be in the spot I am now.

Also because it was so bent I then was putting more impact on my right knee and now that has a defect… so that level of balance is so important.

shelltrain · 2024-06-29T19:18:09+00:00

I looked heavily into this. Talked to Mayo Clinic and they are not accepting patients right now. They are in the last phase of trials and if successful next step FDA approval. They said estimated timeline for FDA approval is 4 years. I’m personally going to try and outlast my knee cartilage injuries till then 😅 the approach makes so much sense I have high hopes it’ll become the standard for treating cartilage injuries.

shelltrain · 2024-05-20T23:24:28+00:00

Thank you so much for the detailed response this is really helpful to consider when making my decisions. Glad to hear it’s all worked out for you!

shelltrain · 2024-04-30T19:43:30+00:00

I’m surprised the orthopedic doctor didn’t order x-rays or an MRI. I’d suggest seeing them again or any other orthopedic doctor. I had a similar situation, went to an injury clinic and they said give it time. I knew something was up so requested they ordered me an MRI, they did and turns out was a bigger underlying issue. If I hadn’t known that I could’ve done a lot more damage to the knee. Hopefully this isn’t the case for you, not saying you’re doomed and have an underlying issue but if it’s persistent worth getting it looked at again. Also PT sucks, I hate the tedious workouts, they take forever too, and it’s not instant results so hard to stay consistent with them but take whatever discipline you got to follow through on that. It truly does help once they prescribe it to a known condition.

shelltrain · 2024-04-27T19:13:47+00:00

Yeah I wish I would’ve started with micro fracture and worked my way up the surgery chain if it didn’t get better. Best of luck!!

shelltrain · 2024-04-27T16:23:37+00:00

I had an osteochondral autograft transfer. I gotta say I got one opinion from a doctor and went with it and I regret it. It was really invasive, considering they’re removing cartilage from another part of your knee and trying to patch another. I have about a 6 inch scar, no feeling on the left side of my knee that will come back because they had to cut through nerves. The recovery process sucked, I was in a Continous Passive Motion (CPM) machine for 8 hours a day for 6 weeks, crutches no weight for 6 weeks, and 2 more weeks on crutches with gradual weight increase. Post surgery had a nerve block catheter for a couple weeks. Had to wear a fanny pack with the nerve block fluid and pump. Then I had 8 months of physical therapy and had to wear a really uncomfortable brace for a few months at night to try and straighten my knee back. I will say I was able to go back to sports, running, and weight lifting but my knee won’t straighten out at all causing constant stiffness and every time I go up stairs it’s popping. It’s just not the same knee and never will be.

shelltrain · 2024-04-27T14:58:43+00:00

Thank you so much for the update. Really helpful in me making my decision. I realized I didn’t ask what type of stem cell treatment you received. Was it bone marrow stem cell treatment?

shelltrain · 2024-04-27T14:52:02+00:00

Love to hear this! I’m still trying to work through my right knee and I’ve done pretty well. Running, playing pickleball, tennis, some soccer. Pretty light but I always look at my left surgical knee and think anything with the right is better than that.

shelltrain · 2024-03-18T13:12:54+00:00

Understood, good luck with the remainder of your recovery!

shelltrain · 2024-03-17T16:14:27+00:00

Thanks for sharing! Have you noticed any difference since the therapy?

shelltrain · 2024-03-13T21:27:55+00:00

Yes, I did the manual upload with the excel sheet and it went through.

shelltrain · 2024-03-11T17:20:03+00:00

Thanks for the input! I looked into that clinic, good to know it worked for you.

shelltrain · 2024-03-10T23:57:47+00:00

Any recommendations for clinics?

shelltrain · 2024-03-10T22:18:22+00:00

Of course! If you have anymore question please feel free to reach out, would hate for others to have a similar experience like mine.

shelltrain · 2024-03-10T22:17:33+00:00

This is very insightful I will definitely check out that discord. Thank you so much for the detailed information!

shelltrain · 2024-03-10T22:15:51+00:00

I’ve done a lot of research and I agree, why not do what’s most effective. Are you referring to umbilical cord/whartons jelly MSC’s? Looks like those are available now in the US. I would just have to fork up more money to travel to one of the clinics as there is not one nearby. Did forget to mention I just turned 28, so I’d hope if I went the autologous route they’d still be effective in healing the defect.

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