The articular joint and its intriguing gliding surfaces

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In 1969, the first man made his first steps on the moon. It was a fantastic research work behind that enormous achievement. Ten years earlier, in 1959, Pridie described how to treat cartilage lesions with bare bone with multiple drilling. Eighteen years after the first moon walk, chondrocytes were used to treat cartilage lesions for the first time. Many of us looking at the moon walks expected a large future of space invasions with a living on the moon but it has not yet happened. Similarly, many believed that cell implantations quite fast would heal OA joints, but that has also not happened. However, looking at details, space research has led to an enormous amount of innovations that facilitates daily life. Also, in cartilage research, we have many small research pieces that all together start to make the cartilage puzzle’s image slightly visible even if it is still partly blurred. …