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Microfracture surgery involves poking tiny holes in the bone near torn knee cartilage. The blood helps repair the tear, but the resulting cartilage isn't as strong as the original, and the knee is ...

Microfracture surgery has limited applications but it is used for defects usually a half inch or smaller by making holes in the bone at the bottom of the defect, attempting to allow a ...

Microfracture technique can be updated to remove cartilage at the base, make walls vertical or stable, and remove calcified cartilage layer. Keeping holes 3 mm to 4 mm apart helps, as well as not ...

Top NBA draft pick Greg Oden doesn't remember much from immediately after knee surgery. He was with his mother at home when he found out how serious it was.

The 7-footer said he had microfracture surgery, a much more serious procedure, and there's still way too much swelling to engage in strenuous activity. Playing in Saturday's game against Indiana ...

Microfracture fails because the body loses the race between durable healing and repeated injury from weight-bearing. For microfracture alone to work consistently, it must be augmented.

The microfracture group consisted of 11 patients whose average lesion size was 130 mm 2. The average age for the entire group was 16.5 years; 10 patients were right-hand dominant and right elbows ...

In that accident, he slipped, fell and suffered a microfracture to his foot, according to his lawsuit, but that was only the start of his troubles.

Microfracture—the surgical procedure during which small holes are made in joint bones—has resulted in successful temporary repairs for thousands of injured athletes. Unfortunately, the ...

Anika Therapeutics (NASDAQ:ANIK) fell ~27% on Wednesday after the orthopedic product developer announced that its cartilage repair therapy Hyalofast failed to succeed in a U.S.-based pivotal trial.