What Stage/Grade of Chondromalacia are you?

[Guest guest]

I read and have heard from some websites and from my physiotherapist

about the different stages of Chondromalacia...

From one website:

- Stages:

- I: swelling and softening of the cartilage;

- II: fissuring w/in the softened areas

- III: fasciclations of articular cartilage almost to level of

subchondral bone;

- IV: destruction of cartilage w/ subchondral bone exposed;

- histologically, stage IV is virtually indistinguishable from DJD;

- there is no unequivical progression from stage I to IV;

Another site:

Grade Description

I Softening and swelling

II Fissuring

III Fibrillation ( " crab meat " appearance)

IV Erosive changes and exposure of the subchondral bone

Anyways... I think I am (according to my physiotherapist) most

likely a grade III or IV. She says that I don't have a lot of

swelling in my knee cap because it's bone again bone, like two

pieces of old pavement rubbing together constantly.

What grades are everyone else, either by being told or by guessing?