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Article: Arthroscopic surgery not better than conservative treatment for knee pain.(IN THE NEWS)(Disease/Disorder overview)(Brief article)
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- Life Extension
- Article date:
- January 1, 2009
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Arthroscopic surgery is no better than optimal physical and medical therapy for osteoarthritis of the knee, according to a recent study. (1)
In this study, adults with moderate-to-severe osteoarthritis of the knee were randomly assigned to treatment with arthroscopic surgery plus physical and medical therapy or physical and medical therapy alone (control group). Eighty-six patients in each group completed treatment. After two years, scores for both osteoarthritis severity and quality of life were similar in the surgery group and the control group, with minor differences that were not statistically meaningful.
The results confirm previous findings of a ...