2023年11月21日 · Meniscus root repair focuses on knees with minimal arthritis, he indicates. Without surgery, healing potential for these injuries is poor, with a nonoperative natural history of 95% failure, according to a publication by Dr. Krych and colleagues in American Journal of Sports Medicine in 2023.

2024年7月14日 · The goal of surgery is to remove or repair the meniscus. By doing this, you should have more stability in the knee and reduce the risk of arthritis later in life.

• In a meniscus root tear, the meniscus is damaged near its attachment to the bone. • In a ‘repair’ procedure, stitches are used to reattach the torn meniscus back to the bone. This is done by drilling a small tunnel in the bone from just below the …

2024年10月14日 · This article introduces an arthroscopic repair technique tailored for posterior root tears of the medial meniscus. The procedure involves meticulous preoperative evaluation, arthroscopic identification, and suture anchor fixation to restore normal knee mechanics.

2024年12月21日 · Surgical treatment options range from varying types of repair (repair with or without centralization, single tunnel or double tunnel transtibial repair, suture anchor repair, etc.) to a high tibial osteotomy (HTO) with or without repair to reconstruction.

How do we protect the root repair? AVOID aggressive hamstring muscle pulling •The hamstring attaches at the back of the knee joint and can tug and place tension on the root repair with activation of the muscle With exercises for motion: •PASSIVE knee bending only for the first 6 weeks after surgery

2025年1月11日 · Numerous arthroscopic techniques for meniscal root repair have been described, with the transtibial pull-out repair being the most prevalent. 6-8 Extensive research has investigated the biomechanical durability and clinical outcomes associated with various suture techniques employed in these procedures. 9, 10 Additionally, the impact of different suture …