Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Medial meniscus pathology and ACL tears were among the most common reasons patients needed surgery after ACL ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Pediatric and adolescent patients with ACL tears had a 2% increase in the risk of medial meniscal injury each ...

No identifiable group of patients benefits much more from arthroscopic partial meniscectomy than any other group, researchers say. Analyzing the data on 641 Danish patients, Kenneth Pihl, PhD, at the ...

Objective We compared long-term follow-up from surgical versus non-surgical treatment of ACL rupture regarding radiographic knee osteoarthritis (OA), secondary surgery, laxity and patient-reported ...

The first study in the world comparing surgical and non-surgical treatment of meniscal tears in young people shows that exercise and patient education provide similar results as surgery. Researchers ...

Background Despite absence of evidence of a clinical benefit of arthroscopic partial meniscectomy (APM), many surgeons claim that subgroups of patients benefit from APM. Objective We developed a ...

While this isn't the fountain of youth, scientists may have improved healing in our joints - even in areas that become weaker as we grow older. The meniscus is a durable, yet flexible tissue found in ...

Physical therapy appears to be nearly as effective as early arthroscopic surgery for treating nonobstructive meniscal tears in middle-aged to older adults, a study has shown. In a randomized ...

Patients over age 50 who underwent an all inside arthroscopic repair technique had lower rates of subsequent total knee surgery than a similar group that was only observed, according to research ...

Meniscal tears are one of the most common knee injuries. The meniscus is a piece of cartilage in your knee between your thighbone and shinbone that acts as a shock absorber. A meniscal tear is a tear ...

Discoid meniscus (DM) is a congenital anomaly of the meniscus form that predisposes individuals to symptomatic DM, especially in the lateral meniscus. Arthroscopic meniscal repair has emerged ...