Urgent warning signs — calf pain or swelling, fever, the knee locking — are one tap away, always.Something feel wrong?Red flags →
AFTER MACI
Evidence / Sources / E292

Rehabilitation Guide for Patella and Trochlea MACI Repair. Published on timspalding.com under the page title "Warwickshire Knee Surgeon- Cartilage and Knee Specialist". The page names no author — its author metadata reads websupport, and a name taken from the domain or a search result is not a name taken from the document. A surgeon's patient guide, not a study. Doses static quadriceps work, a lag-free straight-leg raise and calf pumping through weeks 1–6, and builds flexion to 120° by six weeks. Retrieved 2026-09-11. Full text held

Evidence strength 3 of 5
Clinical practice guideline (institutional, patient-facing)MACI ITSELF
Everything on this site that leans on E292 — 6 claims
Stage II · Protection [patellofemoral]“Knee flexion to 120° with no swelling response.”Stage III · Loading [patellofemoral]“Full passive flexion with no swelling response.”Program · Stage II (patellofemoral) · Gates“Knee flexion to 120°, no swelling response”Program · Stage III (patellofemoral) · Gates“Full passive flexion, no swelling response”Exercise Library · Straight-leg raise, no lag · Evidence for this movement“The sets and reps — a MACI surgeon's guide, untested”Week ruler · weeks 5–6 (patellofemoral)“Knee flexion to 120° by week 6”
Population
MACI, patella and trochlea
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