New hope for people with fractures that won't heal

The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic
Hospital in Oswestry has become the first
in the world to use stem cells to mend
the bone. With 4% in the UK break a bone every year
and 40% will suffer a fracture in our life time.
See the video clip below from the ITV local news.

Procedures for repair areas of cartilage damage

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OsCell Research

OsCell is the only NHS facility which has its
own laboratory for growing
Chondrocytes for Autologous Chondrocyte
Implantation.

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About OsCell

The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt
Orthopaedic Hospital in Oswestry
has a worldwide reputation for
excellence in Orthopaedic research.

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Meeting between Oswestry and Liverpool Bone and Tissue Bank

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.This means that a transplanted knee joint would have 70% of functioning chondrocytes, so maintaining cartilage quality.

Professor James Richardson at Oswestry has been transplanting menisci for over 10 years now and usually combining this with ACI to restore the lining cartilage as well as the 'floating' meniscus cartilage. The new tissues available will provide opportunities for faster rehabilitation as the complete bone and cartilage unit fo the knee as well as the meniscus can be replaced.