How may an artificial meniscal implant improve pain and functional outcomes?
Orthopedics Today | Innovation is required in areas of unmet clinical need, and this can be no truer than in the symptomatic post-meniscectomized knee.While many patients have improvements after meniscectomy, resection can alter joint biomechanics and overload articular cartilage. Long-term, 50% of meniscectomized patients develop symptomatic osteoarthritis due to increased contact pressures, which then leads to
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