This emerging treatment could help people avoid knee replacement surgery

That is how 74-year-old Cynthia Schraf-Fletcher describes genicular artery embolization (GAE), a minimally invasive treatment designed to reduce chronic knee pain. Nearly a year after having the outpatient procedure on her right knee, she says the result feels almost the same as the total knee replacement she previously underwent on her left knee.

"I couldn't be more pleased," says Schraf-Fletcher, who turned t...