Gelenk-Klinik Dr. Baum - Arthrosebehandlung

At this very general statement, a study by the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Here, half of 188 patients with an average age of 60 years with moderate to severe osteoarthritis of the knee joint arthroscopic (cartilage smoothing, removal of cartilage fragments and rinsing of the abrasive particles) and the other half is conservative (analgesics, injection of hyaluronan into the knee and 1x Physiotheraüpiie / week for 3 months) treatment. After three months there were no more differences between the treatment groups.

Important facts are unfortunately in the statement of this study does not take into account:
Basic problems such as obesity (BMI 30-32kg/cm2 average) and chronic injury of the knee joint to remain even after the surgery there, so after initial improvement, the same complaints after 3 months occurred again.

From the study were also excluded all patients with meniscus injury, inflammatory arthritis, axis deformities, patients with previous accidents and so on.
Especially the group of patients young and middle-age benefit in a pronounced mass of the arthroscopy, because immediately after the diagnosis is the reorganization of the established internal knee damage can occur.

So important is the indication for arthroscopy to correct.

With today's diagnostic possibilities should be a purely diagnostic arthroscopy no longer be carried out.