What Are The Pros And Cons Of Meniscus Arthroscopy

As for the advantages and disadvantages of meniscus arthroscopic surgery, generally, as long as the indications are correct, the advantages of surgery are far more than the disadvantages. The most necessary condition for arthroscopic meniscus surgery is repeated locking of the knee joint, with the knee joint sticking and bouncing during flexion and extension, and the resulting pain. Simple knee pain is not necessarily an indication of arthroscopic surgery, because there are many reasons for knee pain. In addition to meniscus injury, cartilage injury, ligament injury and synovial inflammation are also common causes. Therefore, only when pain and other symptoms are clearly caused by meniscus injury, can arthroscopic surgery of meniscus achieve satisfactory results. For young people, meniscus injury is mostly caused by acute injury or developmental deformity, cartilage degeneration is generally not obvious, so arthroscopic treatment of meniscus injury, for young people more significance, can be sutured meniscus injury under the mirror, or meniscus shaping, roughly restore the shape and function of meniscus, delay joint degeneration. Meniscus injury in the elderly is often caused by long-term strain degeneration, and most of the time articular cartilage has been aging, defects of varying degrees, simple arthroscopic meniscus repair, symptoms are often difficult to fully and effectively relieve. Therefore, unless there are clear symptoms of joint interlocking, it is necessary to be cautious about arthroscopic surgery for meniscus injury in the elderly, or it may still not be able to adequately relieve symptoms after surgery.