'Shock Absorber' for Knee Pain - UC Davis Among First to Place MISHA Implant for Osteoarthritis
New implant helps repair knee cartilage in UC Davis Health patients
New techniques include a pellet made of coral and a hydrogel that can be pressed around the bone to help eliminate pain.
It was April 2023, and for the previous eight months, McHatton, a neonatal nurse at the University of California at Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, had lived with incessant pain in her left knee. The popping and clicking she felt, resulting from a torn piece of cartilage lodged behind her kneecap, made it difficult to move around. At just 39 years old, she didn’t want to have a full knee replacement. Over the phone, her doctor proposed something else: How would she feel about coral?
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New implant helps repair knee cartilage in UC Davis Health patients
A UC Davis Health orthopaedic surgeon is among the first in the U.S. to implant a new product that can help preserve knee cartilage. Cassandra Lee, a professor of orthopaedic surgery and chief of the Division of Sports Medicine, recently used CartiHeal™ Agili-C™ Cartilage Repair Implant to help ease a patient’s knee pain after an injury.
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UC Davis Health one of first in U.S. to offer this cutting-edge tech for knee pain
A cutting-edge technology is giving people with knee pain hope, and UC Davis Health is one of the first in the country to offer it.
Whether it's work or play, Joe Barron has always been on the go, but there was always one thing slowing him down: knee pain since the 80s, and double-digit surgeries to go along with it.
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Tips and exercises to help you avoid ski and snowboard injuries
It’s that time of year again: There’s fresh powder in the mountains, and many of us are eager to hit the slopes. However, along with the fun of skiing or snowboarding comes the risk of injury.
On average, between two and four skiers per 1,000 are injured each day on the slopes in the U.S., according to the UC Davis Health Sports Medicine team. Injury rates are similar for snowboarding.
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Patient survives tragic accident with the help of UC Davis Health nurses and physicians
It has been almost two years since Dan Williams woke up in his living room pinned under a car that had crashed into his Rancho Cordova home.
Minutes earlier, he had been watching the NFC championship game with his wife and mother, as his beloved 49ers hosted the Green Bay Packers. Now, Williams was lying under a car with a ruptured spleen, broken sternum, a myocardial contusion or a bruise to his heart muscle and a broken arm.
“I don't remember much after waking up, a lot of it comes in flashes,” Williams recalled. “I remember seeing lights blinking, hearing sirens, and thinking I must be in an ambulance.” ... view more
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