If you do choose to proceed with surgery for a degenerative meniscus tear it should be because: your pain persists after a lengthy period of non-surgical management, it was a quality of life decision… and your surgeon told you that you have little or no arthritis in your knee. When ...
Short story: meniscus tear. ‘Bung but not too bung’ as my physio succinctly put it. No surgery, no reconstruction or anything like that; just ridiculously gentle exercises for my hamstrings, core and other parts of my body that can build up to take some strain off a knee carrying a sm...
BHMTs, especially acute with the locking of the knee, often lead to emergency consulting. In theory, delayed surgery and the persistent locking of parts of the meniscus in the intercondylar notch could result in an extension of the lesion, fragmentation of the interposed tissue, ischemia, and,...