Discover What Knee Cartilage Is – Patient Info Video - video Dailymotion

Kneeclinic Manchester

Learn all about knee cartilage and its vital role in joint health. Mr. Barkatali, expert knee surgeon at The Knee Clinic Manchester, explains this essential part of your knee and why it matters.  Visit: https://www.thekneeclinicmanchester.com/ for more expert advice on knee health.

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00:00Cartilage is the holy grail in orthopaedics. The reason for that is it's an amazing substance.

00:18It's a very complex structure within the joint. And the reason why it's so interesting and complex

00:24is for a number of reasons. Now, from gravity, from weight, biomechanical forces, the movement

00:32that has to take place through everyday life, all our joints, all our diarthrodial joints

00:37have cartilage, highline cartilage inside them. And the purpose of cartilage is to allow frictionless

00:45movement, which is pain-free, and to protect the underlying bone and give you pain-free

00:50movement every day in all your joints for all of your life. Now, the amazing thing about

00:55cartilage is that it doesn't have a blood supply. It doesn't have a lymphatic drainage or supply.

01:02It covers the end of the bone. You're born with it. And that's all the cartilage that you

01:06have for the rest of your life. So this substance, which is around five to eight millimeters thick

01:11in the knee, has to take all that force for such a long period of time and still survive.

01:17And so when you think about it in those terms, it is quite an amazing substance.

01:22Now, people sometimes think about cartilage in the context of osteoarthritis. And that's perfectly

01:28fine, but not everybody gets osteoarthritis. So osteoarthritis is not a part of aging. There

01:34are lots of people that have aged, but they have healthy cartilage and joints. So osteoarthritis

01:39is a pathological process that affects cartilage and degenerates the cartilage.

01:47Also, the left is a path of age, and loved ones where you walk around them. And it

01:51is a path ofulfalty. There's two parts of the story. I love how this is. So

02:07this is going to be fine.

02:08I love how this has broken down a bone range from there to identify the

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