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Joint Distraction Promotes Structural Repair In Patients With Severe Knee Osteoarthritis

Categorie : Arthritis

Joint distraction (the use of a surgical frame around a degenerated joint to strengthen and promote repair) promotes cartilage repair in severe end stage osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee, as demonstrated for the first time by data presented at EULAR 2008, the Annual Congress of the European League Against Rheumatism in Paris, France.In the study, an external fixation frame, with springs, was used to bridge the knee joint in 19 relatively young osteoarthritis patients (

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