The most popular knee surgery is useless

One of the most popular in the world of operations on the knee is no more effective than its absence. Such a bold conclusion was Finnish scientists from the University of Helsinki.

restoration of the meniscus

In the journal New England Journal of Medicine published results of a study of Finnish doctors that have proved inefficient operations restoration of the meniscus Which serves as a seal between the bones of the knee. The experiment involved 146 volunteers, whose   pain in the knee   causes wear meniscus. None of the patients had no injuries or osteoarthritis, for which such an operation has long been considered to be ineffective.

Some volunteers went through this operation restoration of the meniscus And part through the staging, in which doctors only pretended done any surgical intervention. After 12 months, the researchers summed up, and it turned out that the results of both groups about the same. No significant improvement was observed at anybody, and all patients still suffered from pain in the knees . Thus, the operation for restoring the meniscus has no effect, at least during the first year of its implementation.

During this operation, and fake doctors were doing small holes on both sides of the knee to insert instruments to study the joints. With this operation, which is referred to in medicine arthroscopic partial meniscectomy, the surgeon removes the damaged part of the meniscus. Every year in the United States carried out 700 thousand of these procedures, the total cost of which is estimated at $ 4 billion. Therefore, researchers understand that their discovery "will not be greeted with applause." (READ MORE)

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