Stem Cell therapy for Hip cartilage

Dear Kara

Thank you for your posting.

We are not aware of specialists who are currently working to use stem cell therapy for mending worn hip cartilage. There was a clinical trial last year which used people with knee arthritis to have an operation to repair damaged cartilage using stem cell therapy. See http://www.arthritisresearchuk.org/about_us/arthritis_news/press_releases/2010/oswestry_stem_cell_trial.aspx.

Arthritis Research may have more information on this, as well as the possibilities of using stem cells for repairing worn hip cartilage. They can be contacted at http://www.arthritisresearchuk.org/home/contact_us.aspx.

I hope this helps.

Please give our helplines a call on 0808 800 4050 if you would like to have a chat or need more information.

Regards

Nick