Knee Cartlidge

[justdave]

Hello blokes. I was just thinking this morning about the good old fashioned knee cartridge tear. Back in day every player and his dog had one sooner or later. Is it still a thing or called something different like meniscus damage?

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Hello blokes. I was just thinking this morning about the good old fashioned knee cartridge tear. Back in day every player and his dog had one sooner or later. Is it still a thing or called something different like meniscus damage?

Yeah pretty much. I know from experience because I’ve had one! The meniscus is the pad of cartilage that sits over the end of your long leg bones in the knee. I smashed one of mine up snowboarding years back and had surgery to clean it up.

 

[justdave]

Thanks for the reply. Yip, I know what meniscus is. The curve of water in a receptacle is also meniscus. I played thirsty thirds rugby until 40. The next year, watching from the hill my right knee would swell. Went to an ortho and had a clean out. Never moved better.

 

[justdave]

I also remember college gridiron players having cartridge removed before they'd try the big time. Weird to me.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Thanks for the reply. Yip, I know what meniscus is. The curve of water in a receptacle is also meniscus. I played thirsty thirds rugby until 40. The next year, watching from the hill my right knee would swell. Went to an ortho and had a clean out. Never moved better.

Exactly the same symptoms I had. Whenever I stood still for a while my knee would swell up and get inflamed. Had keyhole surgery and they took out a bunch of torn meniscus and shaved what was left smooth. That was 25 years ago and it’s held up well.

 

[Danish]

Got tears in both my meniscus. 1 probably 5 years ago and the other about 3 months ago.

Been to a couple doctors and both said they don’t recommend surgery as it tends to have similar outcomes to just physio, and removing too much of it can lead to troubles later on (knee replacements are basically required once the cartilage is all gone).

mind you given the pain I get in both of them I’m considering a 3rd opinion to get them cleaned out.

If we are talking about fancy pants new names though for injuries, my fave is the old ankle sprain being renamed syndesmosis

 

[Bazal]

Got tears in both my meniscus. 1 probably 5 years ago and the other about 3 months ago.

Been to a couple doctors and both said they don’t recommend surgery as it tends to have similar outcomes to just physio, and removing too much of it can lead to troubles later on (knee replacements are basically required once the cartilage is all gone).

mind you given the pain I get in both of them I’m considering a 3rd opinion to get them cleaned out.

If we are talking about fancy pants new names though for injuries, my fave is the old ankle sprain being renamed syndesmosis

Theoretically a clean out is different to surgery (have had both) - a cleanout is normally to remove extraneous crap, surgery is likely to fix the tear, which they can do these days with sutures etc, or to remove a part of the meniscus that can't be repaired.

Not a doctor but, just have woeful knees lol. Fake ACLs in both these days