For millions of people living with osteoarthritis, the options have long been bleak: manage the pain or replace the joint. A team of researchers in Colorado is now working to add a third option to that list — and their early results suggest it might actually work.
Scientists from the University of Colorado Boulder, CU Anschutz, and Colorado State University have developed two new therapies that, in animal studies, reversed joint damage caused by osteoarthritis within four to eight weeks.