What treatment meant in everyday life.
Read and hear patients describe their own experiences of treatment, recovery and returning to activities that matter to them.
These patient accounts and recordings offer individual perspectives on treatment and recovery. They complement an individual clinical discussion; they do not predict your result.
How to read a patient story
Notice the patient’s original difficulty, what treatment they describe, the follow-up period and what changed in daily life. A report of less pain or better walking does not, by itself, demonstrate cartilage regeneration.
How outcomes are reported: These are individual patient accounts, not a defined cohort. We do not publish an overall success percentage from selected stories. A meaningful group summary requires a stated patient group, treatment details, predefined measures, follow-up time points and accounting for patients not followed.
Responses vary. Patient accounts are individual experiences, rather than controlled comparisons of treatments. For general background on bone marrow lesions (BMLs) and the evidence on subchondral bone, read The Bone Beneath the Cartilage: What the Research Shows.
Selected experiences
A patient’s recovery after PRS
Read the existing account and watch the patient’s own description of recovery after platelet-rich stroma treatment.
Walking, activity & trekking
An earlier recording of a patient discussing knee treatment and the activities that mattered to him.
An earlier knee-treatment story
A patient reflects on treatment and follow-up in an existing video from the practice.
A Canadian patient’s knee-preservation journey
Read about five years of knee osteoarthritis, treatment in Chennai and progress at 10–11 months: improved walking and stairs, full squatting, cross-legged sitting and less brace use indoors.
14-MONTH FOLLOW-UP
A patient’s function after PRASAD
The starting point included long-standing bilateral valgus and knee symptoms. At 14 months, the reported Apley-derived pain grade was 0, walking and stairs had improved, while the 12 cm intermalleolar distance was unchanged.
Read the treatment details, follow-up photos and the limits of the recalled questionnaire scores.
Browse the patient video collection
The collection includes knee arthritis and other joint or soft-tissue conditions. Earlier videos may use terminology that differs from the descriptions used in the practice today.
Your knee needs its own assessment.
Discuss your symptoms, examination and imaging before deciding whether preservation or another treatment is appropriate.