How to use this Phoenix knee site

What to use this site for

Begin with the symptom that sounds most like what you are feeling. Notice where the knee hurts, which movement sets it off, and whether swelling follows. Try the simple home steps when there is no urgent warning sign. If the knee doesn't settle, take your notes to someone who can examine it.

Your exam findings and full health history guide care meant for you.

The site explains what an X-ray may show and what it cannot settle alone. It also tells you when fever, a hot joint, fast swelling, or trouble bearing weight needs prompt care. These points can help you choose between home care, a regular visit, and urgent help.

Treatment pages describe common care and the regenerative choices offered by QC Kinetix. Here, regenerative care means staff draw and prepare some of your blood for a clinic procedure. Results differ, and the exam may support care from another office. Ask which findings were clear, what remains unknown, and what each choice may change.

Use the clinic details to plan travel before a visit. Take a written drug list along with any report from an earlier X-ray. You can write down questions, listen to the answers, and decide in your own time. This site is useful when it helps you have a calmer, clearer talk about your knee.

Sources

1. The AAOS third-edition clinical practice guideline for non-arthroplasty management of knee osteoarthritis is the orthopedic profession's own GRADE-style appraisal of the same options a regenerative clinic sells; it is the benchmark against which any 'regenerative' claim on this topic should be read, and it rates the strongest support for exercise, weight loss and self-management rather than for injectables.

   Brophy RH, et al. — AAOS Clinical Practice Guideline Summary: Management of Osteoarthritis of the Knee (Nonarthroplasty), Third Edition.. The Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, 2022. DOI: 10.5435/JAAOS-D-21-01233.

2. The RESTORE trial - a participant-, injector- and assessor-blinded RCT of 288 adults aged 50+ with symptomatic medial knee OA (Kellgren-Lawrence 2-3) - compared three weekly intra-articular PRP injections against saline placebo, with co-primary endpoints of 12-month knee pain and medial tibial cartilage volume on MRI. PRP did not beat placebo on either. It is the single best-designed test of the specific claim that PRP changes joint structure, and it was negative.

   Bennell KL, et al. — Effect of Intra-articular Platelet-Rich Plasma vs Placebo Injection on Pain and Medial Tibial Cartilage Volume in Patients With Knee Osteoarthritis: The RESTORE Randomized Clinical Trial.. JAMA, 2021. DOI: 10.1001/jama.2021.19415.

3. A four-arm, multicentre, single-blind phase 2/3 randomized trial of 480 knee OA patients (KL II-IV) compared autologous bone marrow aspirate concentrate, autologous adipose stromal vascular fraction and allogeneic umbilical-cord-tissue mesenchymal stromal cells against a corticosteroid injection control. At 12 months NONE of the three orthobiologic injections was superior to another, or to the corticosteroid control, and none of the four groups showed a significant change in MRI osteoarthritis score from baseline. No procedure-related serious adverse events occurred.

   Mautner K, et al. — Cell-based versus corticosteroid injections for knee pain in osteoarthritis: a randomized phase 3 trial.. Nature medicine, 2023. DOI: 10.1038/s41591-023-02632-w.