30-year-old Avoids Arthritis with Meniscus Replacement program: BioKnee

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Many children and youth athletes like Sara are set down an inevitable path of early arthritis with meniscectomy repairs that remove a significant portion of the meniscus cartilage in an attempt to relieve the pain from an injury to the meniscus.
This key structure should not be removed. The removal of this critical shock absorber leads to more surgery, more joint pain, and bone-on-bone arthritis over time, which is why Dr. Stone opts to replace the meniscus with a meniscus transplant whenever possible. This is Sara 10 years after her meniscus transplantation from her BioKnee. 10 years that could've been spent in inactivity and pain management instead were spent enjoying yoga, skiing, & hiking with her family.
Dr. Stone developed the BioKnee program to replace, regenerate or rebuild damaged portions of knee cartilage and injured ligaments using advanced biologic techniques, including a stem cell paste graft and a meniscus allograft transplant, while preserving as much of the natural biology of your knee as possible.
Dr. Stone is one of the world’s leading experts in meniscus transplantation and a pioneer of biologic orthopedic techniques. For over 30 years, he and his team have specialized in giving people like Sara back their vital meniscus shock absorbers, keeping the knee moving naturally, and reducing the likelihood of a total knee replacement.
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TRANSCRIPT:
So I was 11 years old when I had surgery and they completely removed my lateral meniscus on my left knee. And the doctors pretty much said don't do anything because if you do, you're going to end up in a wheelchair because you're going to get arthritis. So I went from living a very active life to being very afraid to do much of anything, but I held open the possibility that something in the future would come along. Eventually, we learned about dr. Stone. He was so positive. He was the first doctor I saw that just was so enthusiastic. It was great. And the surgery was great. So it was 10 years ago that I had the meniscus graft. I couldn't ski, I couldn't hike, especially downhill. And I'm doing that now. And I'm skiing. I'm now living a very active life. I have two little munchkins at home and I can run around with them and I can fully squat down with them, which I do all the time. And I do yoga. So there's, there's not a lot that I haven't found anything actually that I can't do.