Joy Kong, MDRegenerative Medicine Physician, Educator, and Entrepreneur

Stem Cell Therapy for Knee Issues

19 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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Joy Kong, MD, discusses a 12-year study comparing stem cell injections to knee replacement in 30 people with osteonecrosis. Stem cell-treated knees needed replacement in only 1 case, while 6 replacement knees required revision surgery.

Questions this video answers

30 people.

Osteonecrosis of the knee caused by steroid use.

Each participant had one knee injected with stem cells (30 knees) and the other knee treated with knee replacement surgery (30 knees).

About 12 years (speaker says "I think, for about 12 years").

6 of 30 replacement knees required revision surgery.

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They did this particular study, they had 30 people that had osteonecrosis of their knee joint because of steroid use. So what they did was that they divided these 30 people, you know, in the middle, so one half of the body will get knee replacement, the other half were injecting stem cells into it. So 30 people, 30 knees are injected with stem cells and 30 knees are replaced, you know, with knee replacement surgeries. And they tracked these people, I think, for about 12 years. The 30 knees that got knee replace, replacement surgery, six of them had to have revision surgery, which means things weren't going well. But out of the 30 knees that got stem cell treatment, only one needed knee replacement surgery at all.