Meniscal tear treatment
Conservative treatments
- Pain killers
- Physiotherapy
- Injection PRP
- For degenerative meniscus tears, with arthritis
Surgery
- Arthroscopic Partial Meniscectomy can be done
- Meniscal tear can be repaired in the younger individual with a tear over the periphery, where the blood supply is high
Rehabilitation
- Full weight-bearing walk on the same day of the surgery
- Quadriceps strengthening exercises
- After meniscal repair – Rehabilitation for 4 to 6 weeks