Dr. Joshua John-Ram SchacterDr. Joshua Schacter, DO FAAOS, is America’s Holistic Orthopedic Surgeon, with nearly two decades of surgical expertise.

Regenerative Medicine for Knee Pain Part 4

5 Oct 2024 · 0 min

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A short video transcript of a clinical conversation between Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter, an orthopedic surgeon, and a patient (Miss Linda) about knee pain caused by moderate left-knee arthritis. The exchange highlights non-surgical regenerative approaches and the patient’s functional limitations (walking, housework) due to pain. The clinician notes radiographic findings (joint-space narrowing, bone spurs) and reports successful non-surgical management for this patient.

The pain and then not being able to do my normal activity.
As an orthopedic surgeon, it's been really novel to try and help people not to have these big surgeries. And with Miss Linda, I think we've been wildly successful. It's been great. We can see from her X rays here that she has moderate arthritis of the left knee. Certainly some narrowing of this joint space, particularly under the kneecap. We can see some bone spurs there. We talked about that. And so what finally triggered you to come in and talk to us? It was the pain of the knee.
The pain. And then not being able to do my normal activity, like walk the track, even to do housework. Some housework. As far as, you know, the mopping and the vacuuming and the bending and stuff.