What is meniscus in the knee?
Your knee has two pieces of cartilage between your thighbone (femur) and shinbone (tibia). This is the meniscus. It is like a rubbery cushion that protects your knee and bones from shock.
Why does meniscus Tear occur?
Your knee cartilage gets weaker and thinner with age. This makes it more prone to tearing.
A meniscus tear often happens when your knee turns while your foot does not move. This can happen in sports. If your cartilage is weak (because of age or arthritis), you can tear a meniscus by stepping on something bumpy. Arthritis can also make a tear, even if you do not hurt your knee.’
What are the symptoms of meniscus tear?
When you tear a meniscus, you may feel a pop in your knee while walking. You may also have a weak knee that may collapse. Pain, stiffness, or swelling in your knee. Trouble bending or straightening your leg.
Treatment of meniscus tear or torn Meniscus
Your meniscus tear may get better without surgery, depending on how big and where it is. PRICE protocol is followed you hurt your knee. PRICE means protection, rest, ice, compression, and elevation.
Protection: Protection is the first principle. It means keeping the injured area safe from more damage by covering the hurt parts. Different things can protect different areas, like an ace bandage, aluminium splint, sling, protective tape, or brace.
Rest: Don’t put weight on your hurt knee as much as you can.
Ice: Put an ice pack on your knee for 20 minutes, a few times a day.
Compression: Use a compression bandage to lower swelling in your knee.
Elevation: Keep your leg higher than your heart when you rest to make swelling go down.
Pain Procedure
Regenerative therapy by growth factor has been tried with good success in long standing selective cases where surgery is not an option.
You can always contact Dr Chinmoy Roy at Rajarhat Pain Clinic, Newtown, Kolkata for nonsurgical options of treatment in a case of meniscus tear in the knee.
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