They are affections generally caused by a mechanism of wearing of the cartilaginous structure for a repeated pathogenic noxa.
In the sports practice the lesions can even be caused by rushed post-surgical times of recovery.
Chondritis: with this term we meanacute inflammations against the cartilage;
Chondropathies: with this term we define the cartilage pathologies of sub-chronic or chronic type, characterized by different degrees of structural, degenerative distortions.