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Why Arthroscopy Is NOT the Answer for Arthritis
Considering arthroscopic surgery for that persistent arthritic knee pain that just won’t leave you alone? Maybe you should think again. And I’m a former knee surgeon, telling you this. The truth is, you may do just as well with conventional, alternative, or complementary conservative treatments and save yourself pain, risk, and money.
In a study published in the September 11th, 2008 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, a group of Canadian researchers from the Fowler Kennedy Sport Medicine Center of the University of Western Ontario compared two groups of patients with known moderate to severe osteoarthritis.1
One hundred seventy-eight (178) patients were randomly assigned to receive either surgery (arthroscopic lavage — a washout of the joint by saline and debridement — essentially a “clean out” of the joint), followed by optimized physical and medical therapy, or non-surgical treatment, i.e., physical and medical therapy alone.
