Decade-long study questions safety of common knee surgery

Patients undergoing this common knee surgery may experience unnecessary harm or prolonged recovery without therapeutic benefit.

For ten years, researchers followed patients through one of orthopedic medicine's most routine interventions, and what they found now asks the profession a harder question than any single surgery: how much of what we do in good faith is actually good? A common knee procedure, performed thousands of times annually, appears to offer patients little benefit and may cause measurable harm — a finding that has moved from academic journals into operating rooms, where surgeons trained in the very technique are beginning to say they can no longer justify it. The study does not merely challenge a proced

Decade-long study questions safety of common knee surgery

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