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2 Hospitals For Cartillage and Ligament Repair In Georgia
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Georgia has 2 Cartillage and Ligament Repair hospitals in our database. Click the facility name and view their details. You may be able to contact them directly if they have posted contact information.
Cartillage and Ligament Repair is categorized on OnlineMedicalTourism.com as within the class of procedures known as Orthopedics. .
If you would like to expand your search for Cartillage and Ligament Repair services beyond the state of GA there are 2 good options on this site. One, go to local US hospitals and click states neighboring Georgia. And secondly, go to medical tourism procedures and click "Cartillage and Ligament Repair" to view OnlineMedicalTourism's world-wide list of facilities for Cartillage and Ligament Repair.
Georgia has 2 Cartillage and Ligament Repair hospitals in our database. Click the facility name and view their details. You may be able to contact them directly if they have posted contact information.
Cartillage and Ligament Repair is categorized on OnlineMedicalTourism.com as within the class of procedures known as Orthopedics. .
Cartillage and Ligament Repair (click for worldwide facilities list): In the healthy joint, the ends of the bones meet and are held in proper alignment by a network of muscles, tendons, and ligaments. To help them glide smoothly during movement, the ends of the bones are covered with a smooth, glistening substance called articular cartilage.
Cartilage is a type of dense connective tissue. It is composed of specialized cells called chondrocytes that produce a large amount of extracellular matrix composed of collagen fibers. Cartilage is classified in three types, elastic cartilage, hyaline cartilage and fibrocartilage, which differ in the relative amounts of these three main components. Cartilage has limited repair capabilities.
Unfortunately, disease or injury can damage the cartilage, a development that can cause pain, stiffness, and catching in the joint, and eventually lead to exposure of the underlying bone. This degenerative process is the precursor to arthritis of the joint.
Injuries to the cartilage, which may be referred to as lesions or defects, can occur in any joint, but they are seen most commonly in the knee.
Among the conditions and diseases that can cause articular cartilage damage are: traumatic injury, avascular necrosis, in which the bone tissue underlying articular cartilage dies as the result of insufficient blood supply, osteochondritis dissecans, in which the blood supply to a discrete area of the bone is disrupted, and which can lead to the breaking off of fragments of bone and cartilage, degenerative disease, such as osteoarthritis, and inflammatory disease, such as rheumatoid arthritis.
The diffuse articular cartilage damage of degenerative or inflammatory arthritis is not amenable to cartilage repair procedures. But for localized lesions caused by trauma or other disease, a number of treatment options are available to regenerate cartilage in the injured area.
No one technique is suitable for every patient or every cartilage defect. Before initiating treatment, the orthopaedic surgeon obtains a high-resolution MRI to assess the problematic area, and then bases his or her recommendation on the size of the defect, the location of the defect and the overall condition of the joint, including the presence of other disease or injury.
Some of the treatment options that are available: Debridement or abrasion, Microfracture, Mosaicplasty or Osteochondral Autograft Transplantation Surgery (OATS), Periosteal Flap, Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation (ACI), and Osteochondral Allografts.
The term ligament is used to denote fibrous tissue that connects bones to other bones. They are sometimes called articular ligaments, fibrous ligaments, or true ligaments.
A ligament is a short band of tough fibrous dense regular connective tissue composed mainly of long, stringy collagen fibers. Ligaments connect bones to other bones to form a joint. (They do not connect muscles to bones; that is the function of tendons.) Some ligaments limit the mobility of articulations, or prevent certain movements altogether.
Ligaments are only elastic; when under tension, they gradually lengthen. This is one reason why dislocated joints must be set as quickly as possible. If the ligaments lengthen too much, then the joint will be weakened, becoming prone to future dislocations.
The consequence of a broken ligament can be instability of the joint. Not all broken ligaments need surgery, but if surgery is needed to stabilise the joint, the broken ligament can be joined. Scar tissue may prevent this. If it is not possible to fix the broken ligament, other procedures can correct the instability. Instability of a joint can over time lead to wear of the cartilage and eventually to osteoarthritis. There are a number of ligament repair procedures for the knee, head and neck, pelvis, thorax, wrist, and ankle.
http://www.hss.edu/conditions_14186.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligament
http://www.righthealth.com/topic/Ligament
http://www.righthealth.com/topic/Cartilage_Repair/overview/wiki_detailed?modp=Cartilage
More information about this procedure and other related procedures is available here Cartilage is a type of dense connective tissue. It is composed of specialized cells called chondrocytes that produce a large amount of extracellular matrix composed of collagen fibers. Cartilage is classified in three types, elastic cartilage, hyaline cartilage and fibrocartilage, which differ in the relative amounts of these three main components. Cartilage has limited repair capabilities.
Unfortunately, disease or injury can damage the cartilage, a development that can cause pain, stiffness, and catching in the joint, and eventually lead to exposure of the underlying bone. This degenerative process is the precursor to arthritis of the joint.
Injuries to the cartilage, which may be referred to as lesions or defects, can occur in any joint, but they are seen most commonly in the knee.
Among the conditions and diseases that can cause articular cartilage damage are: traumatic injury, avascular necrosis, in which the bone tissue underlying articular cartilage dies as the result of insufficient blood supply, osteochondritis dissecans, in which the blood supply to a discrete area of the bone is disrupted, and which can lead to the breaking off of fragments of bone and cartilage, degenerative disease, such as osteoarthritis, and inflammatory disease, such as rheumatoid arthritis.
The diffuse articular cartilage damage of degenerative or inflammatory arthritis is not amenable to cartilage repair procedures. But for localized lesions caused by trauma or other disease, a number of treatment options are available to regenerate cartilage in the injured area.
No one technique is suitable for every patient or every cartilage defect. Before initiating treatment, the orthopaedic surgeon obtains a high-resolution MRI to assess the problematic area, and then bases his or her recommendation on the size of the defect, the location of the defect and the overall condition of the joint, including the presence of other disease or injury.
Some of the treatment options that are available: Debridement or abrasion, Microfracture, Mosaicplasty or Osteochondral Autograft Transplantation Surgery (OATS), Periosteal Flap, Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation (ACI), and Osteochondral Allografts.
The term ligament is used to denote fibrous tissue that connects bones to other bones. They are sometimes called articular ligaments, fibrous ligaments, or true ligaments.
A ligament is a short band of tough fibrous dense regular connective tissue composed mainly of long, stringy collagen fibers. Ligaments connect bones to other bones to form a joint. (They do not connect muscles to bones; that is the function of tendons.) Some ligaments limit the mobility of articulations, or prevent certain movements altogether.
Ligaments are only elastic; when under tension, they gradually lengthen. This is one reason why dislocated joints must be set as quickly as possible. If the ligaments lengthen too much, then the joint will be weakened, becoming prone to future dislocations.
The consequence of a broken ligament can be instability of the joint. Not all broken ligaments need surgery, but if surgery is needed to stabilise the joint, the broken ligament can be joined. Scar tissue may prevent this. If it is not possible to fix the broken ligament, other procedures can correct the instability. Instability of a joint can over time lead to wear of the cartilage and eventually to osteoarthritis. There are a number of ligament repair procedures for the knee, head and neck, pelvis, thorax, wrist, and ankle.
http://www.hss.edu/conditions_14186.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligament
http://www.righthealth.com/topic/Ligament
http://www.righthealth.com/topic/Cartilage_Repair/overview/wiki_detailed?modp=Cartilage
If you would like to expand your search for Cartillage and Ligament Repair services beyond the state of GA there are 2 good options on this site. One, go to local US hospitals and click states neighboring Georgia. And secondly, go to medical tourism procedures and click "Cartillage and Ligament Repair" to view OnlineMedicalTourism's world-wide list of facilities for Cartillage and Ligament Repair.
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