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ARTHROSCOPIC KNEE SURGERY FOR OSTEOARTHRITIS

Posted on September 29, 2008

A recently published article from the University of Western Ontario in the New England Journal of Medicine, calls into question the efficacy of arthroscopy for the treatment of moderate-to-severe osteoarthritis of the knee. Researchers studied nearly 200 patients with moderate-to-severe osteoarthritis of the knee. They divided the patients into two groups. One group received medication, weekly physical therapy, and an exercise regimen. The other group of patients received the same treatment plus arthroscopic surgery of the knee. After two years, both groups of patients reported the s...

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arthritis , exercise , osteoarthritis