Watch the BBC video of Professor James Richardson from Oswestry Hospital talking about 'Stem cell therapy for arthritis'. The news article gives details about the work carried out by the OsCell team at the Oswestry Hospital and about the stem cell trials available.
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The Seventh UK Cartilage Symposium was held in Oswestry on 19-20th November 2009 and included many members of the ICRS, both research scientists and clinicians. Potentials for ‘Universal’ cell lines and progenitor/stem cells were the focus of the meeting. Several speakers defined potential benefits of a Universal Donor cell.
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In November 2009 Professor James Richardson from Oswestry's Robert Jones and Angus Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital has learned of a special 'off-loader' for early knee arthritis. Professor Richardson had been working on a similar idea to reduce loading across the knee (but different design) 2 years ago with Dr Jan Herman Kuiper.
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In August 2009 the first meeting between Professor James Richardson and the team at Liverpool who run tissue transplantation services took place. The meeting was able to agree that there is now an ability to transplant knee or hip joints. Paul Rooney is head of research and development and his team have developed methods of preserving the chondrocytes in cartilage following preservation.
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First patellar transplant at Oswestry. Last Saturday the first transplant of a patella was performed. The patient who had lost their patella 30 years before following a motorcycle accident. Despite having a good result from ACI to an area of cartilage loss in this knee, the patient could not regain good quadriceps muscle strength.
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