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Tear Your Meniscus? You Might Not Need Surgery After All

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A meniscal tear is a common and disabling knee injury affecting many Americans at some point in their lives. Now, new research suggests that in many cases, exercise may work just as well as surgery to heal the condition in middle-aged people. Meniscal tears occur when damage is done to the rubbery discs that cushion the knee joint. About 2 million people worldwide undergo surgeries known as knee arthroscopy each year. However, there's debate over how valuable these procedures are for meniscal tears. Nina Jullum Kise is an orthopedic surgeon at Martina Hansens Hospital in Sandvika, Norway. To help settle the matter, her team tracked outcomes for 140 middle-aged patients. After two years, the findings showed pain, sports and recreation function, and knee-related quality of life were similar for the group of patients who had surgery, and the group of patients who exercised. .According to UPI, in the end it was concluded that exercise therapy should be considered for middle-aged patients with meniscal tears.

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