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A minimally invasive procedure is helping some people with chronic knee pain avoid or delay knee replacement surgery by targeting blood vessels rather than the joint itself.
Genicular artery embolization relieves knee osteoarthritis pain by blocking small blood vessels around the knee joint using tiny microspheres, which reduces the abnormal blood flow and inflammation linked to the disease rather than fixing the joint's cartilage directly. This targets the pain pathway itself, offering meaningful relief for many patients with mild to moderate arthritis without the recovery time of a full joint replacement.
The procedure does not replace cartilage with any synthetic material, and it does not fuse the joint to prevent movement, both of which describe entirely different treatments; instead, GAE works purely by altering blood flow to calm inflammation.
Because it targets blood vessels rather than bone or cartilage, GAE is classified as minimally invasive and typically performed by interventional radiologists using imaging guidance, a growing category of treatments that aim to delay or avoid more invasive surgery.
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