What harm can meniscus injury have? Is surgical repair necessary?

Once the meniscus is injured, you must go to the hospital for treatment in time, otherwise it will cause serious harm to human health. Meniscus in the knee joint of human body will directly affect the activity ability of human body. People with meniscus injury can't walk normally. In addition to obvious pain in the knee joint, there will also be blood and effusion in the joint. These blood and effusion will not be eliminated by themselves. Be sure to go to the hospital and ask the doctor to take out the effusion with a needle and wrap the affected area tightly with an elastic bandage. After the effusion is extracted, the knee joint can't move, otherwise the knee joint will produce more effusion through friction, so people with meniscus injury must pay attention to rest.

Once the meniscus is injured, in addition to effusion, it will also cause infection in the joint, and even purulent phenomenon will occur in serious cases. Meniscus injury is mostly caused by excessive exercise or accidental impact, so the treatment of meniscus injury must not be ignored. If not treated in time, it may even be severely disabled.

There are two main medical treatments for meniscus injury, one is conservative treatment and the other is surgical treatment. The doctor will judge whether surgical repair is needed according to the patient's own situation. Different groups of people should adopt different treatment schemes. For example, middle-aged and elderly patients are not suitable for meniscus repair through surgery. Because of old age and lower resistance, the meniscus has begun to gradually degenerate. For them, the risk of meniscus surgical repair is relatively high, and the effect of surgical treatment on middle-aged and elderly people is not obvious.

In addition, teenagers under the age of 14 are not suitable for surgical repair, because teenagers are in the period of growth and development, and there are many blood vessels around the meniscus, so the risk of surgery is relatively high. Therefore, it is better for teenagers below 14 to choose conservative treatment. The conservative treatment of meniscus injury is mainly massage and acupuncture. Conservative treatment is relatively safe, but it is only suitable for patients with mild illness. If the meniscus injury is very serious, it is recommended that patients adopt minimally invasive surgery.