A sudden knee injury revealed a 2-centimeter hole in the cartilage under the kneecap. The doctor offered three options: a cadaver cartilage transplant, total knee replacement, or MACI, a procedure that grows the patient's own cartilage cells.
I ended up going to the doctor. I had some pretty severe knee pain, just flare up kind of randomly. Wasn't super swollen, but they had done an MRI on me and sliced it in many different ways, if you will. Mm-hmm. And it, it revealed that I had a hole in my cartilage. And so it was right under my kneecap. It was about a 2-centimeter hole. And so they gave me a couple different options. I could either have a cadaver, I could have a knee replacement, or I could do what's called a MACI procedure.
