It may surprise some, but I treat many patients for knee disorders. Here is a follow up study from the Annals of Rheumatic Diseases showing no benefit of surgery for degerative meniscal cartilage tears of the knee. This type of study with sham (placebo) surgery is not done very often. This showed that after two years there was not significant differences between the surgury group and the sham surgery group. It lends evidence to the evolving consenus that degenerative tears are just part of the arthritis process and not seperate clinical entities.
Anyone have experience with knee meniscus surgery?
Sham Knee Surgery as Good as the Real Thing?