You may not be better off after knee surgery - CNN.com
Interesting study. The actually did fake surgery on patients and they did just as well as the ones who got real meniscus surgery. This is a selected patient population and may not apply to everyone.
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1305189
In this trial involving patients without knee osteoarthritis but with symptoms of a degenerative medial meniscus tear, the outcomes after arthroscopic partial meniscectomy were no better than those after a sham surgical procedure
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