Stem cells ease creaking knees

AN INJECTION of stem cells into the knee cuts pain and improves movement in patients with osteoarthritis, according to a new study published in Stem Cells International.

Doctors injected 262 knees with stem cells taken from patients’ own bone marrow.

Their knee function almost doubled after treatment.

Overall symptoms improved by more than a third, and pain levels went down by nearly 50 per cent over six weeks.

‘Patients showed significant reductions in pain scores,’ said doctors at Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio, U.S..