Arthrosamid – for Knee Osteoarthritis Pain Relief
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Nanobots? Nope. Just a Gel That Sticks Around for 5 Years
Where do sci-fi movies turn to when the plot is thrown into a corner? ‘Nanobots’. They inject something into the blood stream and the little ‘bots’ do all the work and create a superhero.
What if, we say that there is a similar injection similar to treat knee osteoarthritis! (Well, except for the nanobot part)(and the superhero part).
Contura Orthopaedics have created Arthrosamid a first “injectable synovial implant”. It a 2.5% PolyAcrylamide gel(iPAAG) which coats the synovial membrane and gives pain relief upto 5 years!
When injected, the compound integrates into the synovial membrane and remains as non biodegradable, non absorbable and non migratory, although we don’t yet know how the pain relief is achieved.
The compound itself is not new, been used up for soft tissue augmentation and bilking agent in stress incontinence almost for 40 years. Also, been injected into race horse knees with excellent effects.
This is not yet FDA approved but CE approved for use in Europe and being used in the UK and Canada. Does it cause any short or long term issues with knee replacement after injection? We don’t know yet.
