For meniscus injuries, the prognosis of surgical treatment depends on the degree of damage to the meniscus and the corresponding cartilage surfaces, rehabilitation, the presence of other pathologies, and the patient’s own physical condition. If the degree of injury is mild and the rehabilitation training is good, the treatment result is generally better.
1. Degree of injury: For most meniscus injuries, surgery is a proven treatment. During surgery, the meniscus will be preserved as much as possible, and those who can be repaired will not be resected, and those who can be partially resected will not be completely resected. Maximum protection of meniscus, reduce the loss of knee tissue.
2. Rehabilitation training: good muscle strength has a protective effect on the joints, so the quadriceps muscle and knee joint exercise should be actively carried out under the guidance of the doctor after the operation, and the rehabilitation exercise should be gradual, in order to achieve better therapeutic effect.
3. Other lesions: If meniscus injury causes meniscus cyst, ligament injury, bone contusion, cartilage fracture, muscle atrophy and other lesions, it will not only aggravate the pain, but also cause the muscle strength to decline, increase the difficulty of treatment and affect the prognosis.
4. own condition: if the patient himself suffers from diabetes and other basic diseases, the operation will be more difficult and risky, the knee function recovery difficulty also increases, after the operation should pay more attention to the patient’s care and rehabilitation exercise.
Surgical treatment of meniscus injury has been relatively mature in China, and the overall therapeutic effect is good. However, each patient’s own situation is different, the specific treatment effect may also be different, we should try to follow the specialist’s requirements for recuperation and rehabilitation training.