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Osteoarthritis of the Knee (OAK)
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1 Osteoarthritis of the knee (OAK) is a chronic degenerative disease that degenerates rapidly with age. It is estimated that there are 25.3 million OAK patients in Japan, accounting for 20% of the population. The number of symptomatic patients is estimated at 8 million and is expected to continue to increase with increasing aging.
2.2 Surgical treatment includes arthroscopic debridement of the knee joint, osteotomy around the knee joint,
2.3 Examples are high tibial osteotomy, unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) and total knee arthroplasty (TKA).
PRP v. APS _cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b- 136bad5cf58d_osteoarthritis
1. PRP has become more common in the past 10 years.
2. APS is less common. In contrast, APS has almost no search volume in google. The above two are based on the amount of google search data.
3. In view of the above situation, it is recommended to try PRP on the left or right leg for three months before seeing the effect.
3.1 A new treatment, such as APS, is similar to the treatment of the new coronavirus. It is a new thing, and no one knows how effective it will be. It does take time. In any case, knee pain accounts for 20% of the Japanese population. a common problem of the aging population
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