An overview of knee osteoarthritis treatments.
Marc Darrow, MD. JD. There are many ways to treat knee osteoarthritis. Some successful, other not. As each person represents a unique case, it is difficult top determine which treatment would be best for an individual. When I started this work in regenerative medicine more than 25 years ago, the options were mainly surgery or painkiller. But that was then, with the advent of “biomedicine” (blood and stem cell therapies), the choices have changed dramatically. From this point of view, arthroscopic surgery is now seen as the least desirable option, and knee replacement something that should be delayed as long