Chondroprotection following acute joint injury: prevention of osteoarthritis

Developing therapies for chondroprotection offers the potential to prevent debilitating osteoarthritis and associated joint replacement following acute joint trauma. Although many significant challenges must be overcome, in comparison to expensive and time-consuming conventional osteoarthritis clinical trials, therapeutic chondroprotection may provide an easier path to evaluate treatments that have potential as disease-modifying therapies for osteoarthritis.