OATS

Sleepless, in North Carolina

michelel — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:53:38 -0700

Ok lets try this again, just lost everything I was writing somehow.Its 247am and I cant freaking sleep for nothing. My knee hurts so bad, I just took another norco, and its not working. Man I cant wait til April 20 to get this OATS done. I know I will be in post op pain but at least I know there will be light at the end of the tunnel. My surgeon is confident that this proceedure will help me. I really hope so, believe me I've done alot of research on it and thank God for kneegeeks.

OATS (dictionary definition)

admin — Fri, 02 May 2008 09:06:12 -0700

Managing arthritis - surgical cartilage repair

admin — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:45:50 -0700

Surgery to slow established patellofemoral arthritis

admin — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:49:24 -0800

What symptoms and disabilities are important to articular cartilage repair patients? - survey update

ergomaniac — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:38:23 -0800

Positive first response from medical community...

Articular cartilage repair - who gets what technique?

admin — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:16:04 -0800

If you read through the reference given in the previous chapter, you will know by now that there are a number of possible surgical techniques that may benefit someone with joint cartilage damage in the knee. To help surgeons decide which procedure to do, a number of flowcharts (or 'algorithms') have been developed. The surgeon can estimate the depth of the damage and the width of the damaged area, and ask the patient questions about their lifestyle and age. Then by referring to the flowchart, the surgeon will have a fairly good idea of what surgery is likely to benefit the patient.

Cartilage repair with osteochondral grafts - OATS and mosaicplasty

admin — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:14:39 -0700

Rather than relying on the migration of bone marrow cells into the defect, chondral grafting relies on taking full thickness cores of bone and cartilage from a healthy part of the joint and grafting it into the defect.

This technique is relevant to defects in the cartilage between 1 and 2 centimetres squared.