Adding arthroscopic surgery to nonoperative management neither delays nor accelerates the timing of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) in patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA). Some case series show that ...

Background Knee arthroscopy is a common procedure in orthopaedic surgery. In recent times the efficacy of this procedure has been questioned with a number of randomized controlled trials demonstrating ...

ORLANDO -- Among patients who have meniscal damage complicated by knee osteoarthritis (OA), arthroscopy did not decrease or delay the likelihood of eventually having knee replacement, a researcher ...

Two expert MDs say it's a telltale sign that you might be ready for surgery once you start experiencing this type of ...

A group of physicians and researchers examined the financial impact of third-party reimbursement as the definition for the ICD-9 arthroscopy code changed over time and published their results in The ...

Objectives To assess the rates and secular trends of different joint arthroscopies—shoulder, elbow, wrist, hip, knee and ankle—in Finland between 1997 and 2016. Design Retrospective nationwide ...

Compared with conservative treatment, arthroscopy did not decrease or delay total knee arthroplasty (TKA) in a 5-year retrospective study of 382 patients with osteoarthritis (OA). Of the 214 patients ...

CJR spending goals remain unchanged after CMS allows outpatient total knee surgery CMS may reassess spending benchmarks for total knee arthroscopy under the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement ...

QUESTION: I am a 50-year-old man with problems in my right knee. I’ve had two operations on it – one when I was 20 years old and the second when I was 40 to remove loose pieces of bone. Last year I ...

Objectives We investigated trends and regional variation in the rate of arthroscopic knee surgery performed in England from 1997–1998 to 2016–2017. Design Cross-sectional study of the national ...