Rourke has arthritis :-(

Oberon

Oberon

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Canberra, Australia
Jelinga said:
@Oberon, can that cartilage regain some bulk or has it gone for ever?
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I am pretty sure that there is some evidence (from clinical trials in animals and, more recently, humans) that use of Pentosan can result in some level of cartilage repair. Not sure to what degree though. It also ‘thickens up’ the synovial fluid in the joint. Stem cell injections might also be capable of repairing cartilage to some extent. Repairing cartilage is a bit of a ‘holy grail’ for arthritis treatment. One issue with fixing cartilage is that it doesn’t really have a blood supply, so the body has a hard time getting its repair mechanisms, which travel in blood, to the site. Pentosan does seem to make it into the joint fluid though.

I haven’t read much about this area recently though...I read up on it a few years ago when I put my horse on Pentosan. We are thinking of starting Obi on Pentosan as these days he’s occasionally got a bit of soreness in his right hind leg.
 
Atemas

Atemas

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North Cambridgeshire
Jelinga said:
can that cartilage regain some bulk or has it gone for ever?
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The MBST (magnetic resonance therapy) I have had on my arthritic knees has regenerated the cartilage - it’s still going on 8 weeks after the treatment. I am not totally pain free but it is massively improved. Unfortunately this treatment is very expensive but was a last attempt at improving my longstanding problem. They use MBST on animals too.
 
Oberon

Oberon

Location
Canberra, Australia
Jelinga said:
@Oberon, I had a look at Pentosan on Google and it seemed to be for cystitis! Is it the generic of Cartrophen or the other way round!
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Pentosan and Cartrophen are the same thing. Pentosan is the original name and it’s the name used in Australia. It’s called Cartrophen in the UK for some reason.

In humans Pentosan/Cartrophen has been used for cystitis for decades. It was found by chance that it also had an effect on arthritis. It was then used on animals (horses and dogs) as an arthritis treatment. There has been a fair bit of research on its use in animals. It is only fairly recently that human trials have begun to test its effect on arthritis in humans.
 
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