Hi,
I'm 28 years old, and six years ago I twisted my right knee and got a (suposedly) small chondral lesion in my patela. Since then I have crepitus, pain and a mild swelling when I bend my knee with load. More than five physicians said that it was negligible, and just prescripted exercises to "realign the patela".
The years passed, the pain and swelling are only getting worse, and I'm growing afraid that I'm treating the wrong thing. I suppose my problem was never a malalignment, but a cartilage defect caused by acute trauma, which will grind anyway it tracks. So I'm trying to gather information about cartilage shaving of the patela for my specific case: a (now not so) small acute lesion, with nothing to do with maltracking.
From the physicians that I talked personally, some said it was OK, some said it was futile, and some literally didn't even know that the procedure exist. So I would like to ask to you too.
What is the best tool? Despite thinner, does the cartilage can become smooth as new? Is it possible for the pain completely disappear, or that would be dreaming too much? I just would like to get an idea, because I really have none.
Thanks.