Are you sure your pain is really real?

This is a deliberately stupid question. I don’t actually mean is your pain real? What I mean is does your pain result from actual tissue damage? Is there an underlying physiological cause? Or it actually something else? All pain is real if you genuinely experience it

Cartilage is like tooth enamel. It just wears away with time – right?

It’s been a while since we had one of these rather one sided conversations. I bet you’ve all waiting excitedly for the next gripping instalment from cartilage repairman. Since we last spoke I’ve played a fairly disastrous 2 hour game of tennis which reminded me – because I was beginning to forget – just how […]

My First Post

Today I officially have osteoarthritis. It’s a NICE birthday present. Well what I mean by “NICE” is that it’s courtesy of the UK’s National Institute for Clinical Excellence. According to their guidelines a health professional should “diagnose osteoarthritis clinically without investigations” if all of the following 3 conditions apply: a person is 45 or over, has joint pain […]