1. Beaumont Doctors Specializing in Sports Medicine Sports Medicine

2. Cartilage Surgery

3. Anatomy

5. Cartilage Injury - Generalized

6. Cartilage Injury - Focal

7. Symptoms of Cartilage Injury Pain Swelling Catching Locking

8. Arthroscopic Surgery

10. Chondroplasty

11. Microfracture

13. Carticel

15. Fixation of Osteo- chondral Lesion (OCD) X-RayMRI

16. Fixation of Osteo- chondral Lesion

18. Osteochondral Autografting

20. Osteotomy

22. Unicondylar Knee Arthroplasty

23. Total Knee Replacement

24. Goal Pain-free knee that does not swell, catch, or lock

25. Possible Risks and Complications Anesthetic Neurovascular injury Stiffness Infection Blood clot Pain, swelling, mechanical symptoms

26. Rehab Depends on the procedure: If simple chondroplasty, able to bear weight when comfortable; rehab individualized If microfracture, OATS, or Carticel, period of nonweightbearing or weightbearing in a brace followed by rehab

27. No surgery is ever guaranteed, and we cannot cure arthritis

28. However, there are good options to alleviate symptoms and restore normal function