A medical study reveals that standard knee surgery yielded worse results after 10 years than a placebo procedure.

Every year, roughly two million people worldwide have a surgeon slide a tiny camera into their knee, trim a flap of torn ...

Partial meniscectomy does not improve patient symptoms or function, reveals a 10-year follow-up of the FIDELITY, a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Rip-stop sutures should be used in patients with degenerative meniscus tissue during meniscal root repair.

Ten-year follow-up data from the FIDELITY study of arthroscopic partial meniscectomy (APM) in patients with symptoms of degenerative meniscal tear found the procedure offered no benefits and was even ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Moderate evidence suggests there is no benefit to arthroscopic meniscal debridement for degenerative meniscal ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: About eight months ago, I was diagnosed with a torn meniscus in my right knee. Over the course of six months, I received physical therapy and two cortisone shots and had fluid drained ...

A major 10-year clinical trial is turning one of the world’s most common knee surgeries on its head. Researchers found that ...

In patients with a degenerative medial meniscal tear and no knee osteoarthritis, arthroscopic partial meniscectomy is no better than sham surgery, Finnish researchers report in the December 26 issue ...

Knee surgery may not always be needed for mensical knee tears and injuries—exercises may work just as well to heal the pain. An estimated two million people have arthroscopic knee surgery (also known ...

Partial meniscectomy – a form of arthroscopic surgery for patients with a torn meniscus, a rupture of the fibrocartilage strips in the knee – is ineffective for individuals with mechanical symptoms of ...

Last week we discussed signs and symptoms of people who are dealing with knee pain that might be coming from a meniscus tear. If testing is done to confirm a meniscus tear, most people think that ...