BEFORE photo of the femur BEFORE photo of the hole in the cartilage on the end of my femur. The white stuff is healthy cartilage, the dark star-shaped area in the center is the hole right down to bone. (The silver thing on the right is the instrument of torture used to trim the cartilage.)
AFTER photo of the femur AFTER photo clearly showing the holes drilled as part of the "micro-fracture" procedure to stimulate the growth of scar tissue (faux cartilage).

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