As we get older, our body's organs naturally age and degenerative diseases begin to develop one by one. Among them, arthritis, a degenerative disease in the knee, is more common in middle-aged women.

Many people think a torn meniscus is an injury that only happens to athletes. But that’s not the case. It turns out you can sustain the injury from something as simple as your foot slipping off ...

Surgeons may need to resect horizontal cleavage tears in patients with the degenerative, avascular, unstable meniscus tissue that cause pain and catch. “The patient and surgeon are always ...

A surgery for a torn meniscus caused by wear and tear is rarely beneficial, this was already known. Now a study from Radboud university medical center shows that there are no smaller groups of ...

Meniscal injury can be traumatic, for example, commonly a vertical longitudinal tear sustained to a healthy meniscus, or degenerative, for example, commonly horizontal and complex tears having a ...

Physical therapy (PT) can be useful for a torn meniscus whether or not you have surgery. Find out when it helps, what to expect, and how long you’ll need to do it for.

Brown played through a partial meniscus tear in his knee, according to ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne. Shelburne reported Saturday that the player received pain injections in the knee beginning in March.

Other athletes with meniscus tears. Running back Adrian Peterson tore his meniscus in September 2016 and was back on the field in December. When he returned, Peterson managed just 22 yards on six ...

EAGAN, Minn. — The development of Minnesota Vikings quarterback J.J. McCarthy will be put on hold after the team announced Tuesday he'll need surgery after tearing a meniscus in his right knee ...

UEFA’s ‘elite sports injury study’ found that in elite footballers, an ACL tear is accompanied by a meniscus tear in around 50-70 per cent of cases, but tearing both menisci at the same time ...