JOINT CARTILAGE PROBLEMS IN THE KNEE

 This is a collection of independent articles on recognising and evaluating joint cartilage damage in the knee.

If one looks at the microscopic structure of cartilage one will see that it is composed primarily of a slippery white 'matrix' (imagine a contact lens - flexible and slippy but strong) which is strengthened by the incorporation of randomly arranged collagen fibrils (tiny fibres).