Vladimir Firsov reportedly sustained contusions of the spine and left hip joint.

He had a tubercular hip.

We know that if we have a damaged hip, you can put an artificial hip in.

And by degenerative joint disease you mean arthritis?

(Annie) It's his hip, mister.

I hope his rheumatism is better.

Seems like a man with busted knuckles didn't need arthritis, don't it?

It fits arthritic hands. It fits children's hands.

This getup is giving me arthritis.

Is it a dexterity problem? Is it the onset of arthritis?

Yeah, some day if I don't get arthritis first.

That's your articular cartilage, and those are your synovial membranes.

The axis of a wheel is staying on the same level, and this hip is staying on the same level as well.

And the other one has arthritis of the shoulder joint, you know, it's not working very well, so it's walking like this, and we can move the arm, you know, that way.

Mr. Wiggs always swore it cured his arthritis just before he died.

Assuming you live a long life, there's a 50 percent chance you'll develop arthritis.

Cancer may kill you, but when you look at the numbers, arthritis ruins more lives.

He was moved to the Bone and Joint Hospital, where the leg was amputated.

When you go from a world where you treated arthritis with aspirin, that mostly didn't do the job, to one where, if it gets bad enough, we can do a hip replacement, a knee replacement that gives you years, maybe decades, without disability, a dramatic change, well is it any surprise that that 40,000 hip replacement replacing the 10 cent aspirin is more expensive?

The Xray revealed that though the fracture healed, there was marked indication of degenerative joint disease.

Allison Hunt gets hip

I would not have my new hip for TED2008.

Diagnosis was hip fracture with destruction of the joint surfaces, which caused the pain and restriction of motion.

That means we get our new hips for free.

One final story this is Kelly Young, a rheumatoid arthritis patient from Florida.

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So my hip had been hurting me for years.

Five weeks ago I had total hip replacement surgery.

I wouldn't have my new hip for this TED.

I wouldn't have my new hip for TEDGlobal in Africa.

First of all, I am going to take such good care of this new hip.

Cut your throttle.

I'm going to replace your hip it's about an 18 month wait.

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Narrator We are all aware of the risk of cancer, but there's another disease that's destined to affect even more of us arthritis.

Arthritis and injury grind down millions of joints, but few get the best remedy real biological tissue. Kevin Stone shows a treatment that could sidestep the high costs and donor shortfall of human to human transplants with a novel use of animal tissue.

The knee is out of joint.

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Sure David, if it's not your hip, it's truth and beauty.

I would still be on my bad hip. That was so disappointing.

I can sprinkle a few cells, stem cells from the patient's own hip, a little bit of genetically engineered protein, and lo and behold, leave it for four months and the face is grown.

And on the other end, excessive angiogenesis too many blood vessels drives disease, and we see this in cancer, blindness, arthritis, obesity, Alzheimer's disease.

What in the world of biology might be helpful at this juncture, to get us through this sort of evolutionary knothole that we're in?

The other, in nuances.

And then for the damaged arthritis on the surface, we did a stem cell paste graft, which we designed in 1991, to regrow that articular cartilage surface and give it back a smooth surface there.