Knee A to Z

Microfracture is a surgical procedure where a tiny 'pick' is used to spike holes through damaged joint cartilage into the bone below with a view to stimulating bleeding and formation of new fibrocartilage. Page updated May 2024 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor)

Microfragmented adipose tissue transplantation (MATT) is a cartilage repair technique.

Microfragmented fat is a preparation of fat which has been aspirated from an area of the body like the front of the abdomen and passed through a system to chop it up and extract the portion that contains progenitor cells.

Mini squats are early knee rehabilitation exercises to improve muscle strength, stimulate the VMO and achieve some range of motion of the knee. Page updated March 2024 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor)

A mini stork is a knee rehabilitation exercise.

The mini trampoline is useful for knee rehabilitation exercises.

Miserable malalignment is a specific combination of rotational deformities in the leg that may lead to patellar (kneecap) pain and instability. Page updated April 2024 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor)

A mobile-bearing knee replacement or arthroplasty is a knee implant where the plastic component (that replaces the meniscus) is mobile.

A mosaicplasty is a surgical procedure to repair damaged joint cartilage by harvesting small cores of cartilage and bone from a non-weightbearing part of the joint and packing them into a mosaic to repair a larger weightbearing defect in the cartilage. Page updated July 2023 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor)

A knee mouse is the same thing as a 'loose body' - a fragment of cartilage floating freely in the knee joint cavity.