Am I a candidate for stem cell therapy?

What the result means

It is a read on whether you match the patient profile clinics in this field usually treat. It is not a prediction that treatment will work, which is a different question and one that mostly does not have an answer yet for the conditions clinics advertise.

Some answers stop the assessment rather than counting against it. An active cancer diagnosis or a current infection is not a mark against a strong profile that other answers can outweigh, it is a reason any responsible clinic will decline to treat you now. A scoring model that let those average out would be giving dangerous advice in a polite voice.

The questions that carry the most weight

Do you have a diagnosis. Confirmed by imaging or a specialist, ideally within the last year. Without one, nobody can say whether treatment is appropriate, and a clinic willing to proceed anyway is skipping the step that decides everything else.

How advanced it is. Reported results are strongest in earlier disease and weakest at end stage. This one cuts both ways: too early and conservative care has not been tried, too late and the window has closed.

What you have already tried. Physiotherapy, medication, bracing and conventional injections come first. They are cheaper, better evidenced, and clinics will ask.

What you expect. Scored deliberately. Someone expecting cartilage to regrow and the joint to be new again is going to be disappointed on the evidence as it stands, and a screening tool that stayed quiet about that would be setting them up for it.

What to do with the flags

Each flagged answer comes with a note. Take those to the consultation as questions rather than as reasons not to go. A clinic that answers them directly, in writing, and tells you when the answer is that nobody knows, is behaving the way you want a clinic to behave. One that talks around them has told you something useful too.