Chronic Knee Pain Due to Cartilage Injury: Treatment Options
7 min readSep 18, 2019
By: Geoffrey Van Thiel, MD/MBA
Chronic knee pain due to injury of the cartilage is common, however, many people are afraid of surgery. They need to understand current treatment options.
During a soccer game at the age of 12, Kayla dislocated her kneecap. It was her first knee injury. She would go on to dislocate it several times again…