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How Do You Treat Torn Cartilage?
What Is It?
A meniscus is a disk-shaped piece of cartilage that acts as a shock absorber inside a joint. Each knee has one lateral meniscus under the outer knob of the thighbone and one medial meniscus under the inner knob of the thighbone. Each meniscus acts as a natural cushion between the thighbone (femur) and shinbone (tibia). . The two cushions prevent excess wear and tear inside the knee joint by keeping the ends of the two bones from rubbing together. Each meniscus also absorbs much of...
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A New Breakthrough in Treating Torn Knee Cartilage
Source: eOrthopod
This study shows that surgical treatment of one particular knee injury is worth it, even years later. Seventy-two patients were included in a study... Read more »
Successful Graft Treatment for Full-Thickness Cartilage Tears
Source: eOrthopod
Knee injuries can be very complex to treat. This is especially true when there is damage to the surface of the bone. The layer of cartilage in... Read more »
Treatment for Damage to the Knee Cartilage: Repair or Reconstr...
Source: eOrthopod
What's the best way to treat damage in the knee joint articular cartilage? In this report, surgeons from the Netherlands summarize the current... Read more »
Patching up Damaged Knee Cartilage
Source: eOrthopod
This is a case of a 25-year-old man from Italy who was in a car accident. He ended up with a large tear in the cartilage of his knee. A layer of bone... Read more »
New Bioengineered Treatment for Cartilage Lesions of the Knee
Source: eOrthopod
Cartilage injuries in the knee can be a big problem. Healing is very slow, if it happens at all. That's because the cartilage in the knee doesn't... Read more »
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