Market Challenges And Opportunities

Busy lifestyle of the urban population, has resulted in limited physical activity and intake of unhealthy diet, resulting in excess weight gain, thus making knee cartilage more susceptible to injuries and damage. This helps fuel the knee cartilage repair market. The major factor inhibiting market growth is the high costs of knee cartilage repair procedure.

Various procedures for damaged knee cartilage repair involve filling the cartilage pothole with repair tissue, to help heal the cartilage. Larger defects are treated with autologous chondrocyte transplantation or osteochondral allograft transplantation, while smaller defects are treated with autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI), osteochondral autograft transfer, and marrow stimulating techniques.