The medial meniscus transmits approximately 50% of the total joint load of the knee medial compartment, thus protecting the articular cartilage from excessive force. Tears to the medial meniscal ...

This means they can put increased pressure on the joint by disrupting the structure that helps distribute weight in the knee. Posterior horn medial meniscus tear This is a tear at the spot where ...

Each knee joint has two wedge-shaped pieces of soft cartilage that make up the meniscus. They are collectively called menisci or the meniscus. The medial meniscus rests on the inside part of your ...

The medial meniscus is the central band of cartilage attached to the tibia, or shinbone. The band goes around the knee joint in a crescent-shaped path and is located between the medial condyles of ...

which is cartilage in the knee joint. This cartilage acts like a cushion between the shinbone (tibia) and thighbone (femur). Meniscal tears are among the most common knee injuries. How torn knee ...

But these "meniscal" and "mechanical" symptoms do not reflect what surgeons will find at knee arthroscopy, reports a study in The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery. Both types of symptoms are ...

A nitinol suture shuttle is advanced into the joint through the cannulated ... Figure 8. Left knee medial meniscus posterior root repair is shown after final tensioning (viewing from the ...

The menisci of the knee are important load sharers and shock absorbers in the joint. Meniscal tears are common, and whenever possible meniscal tears should be surgically repaired. Meniscectomy leads ...

Lack of joint stability, poor joint alignment and injuries to the disks of meniscal tissue that cushion the knee all affect load distribution and the toll to the vulnerable OA knee. However ...