Growing New Cartilage

Cartilage does not heal on its own — but it can be regrown in a lab from a patient's own cells and implanted where the crater was: MACI is knee surgery playing the long game.

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts follow the two-surgery arc: the biopsy arthroscopy, the months while cells cultured, implantation day, and the famously patient rehab — weeks of continuous passive motion machines, months on crutches, a year before sport. Writers include the athletes who returned to fields and mountains, the desk workers who simply wanted stairs back, graft failures and reoperations told straight, and the discipline that separated outcomes more than the surgery did.

Who it's for

For anyone with a cartilage defect weighing restoration against resurfacing, mid-rehab and counting weeks, or deciding whether their knee is worth a year.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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