Keisuke Kita, Masashi Kusano, Akira Tsujii, Tomoki Ohori, Yudai Tanaka, Norimasa Nakamura, Ken Nakata
Radial tears of the human knee meniscus result in the loss of circumferential hoop stress and are highly correlated with knee degeneration. Although a variety of surgical techniques are available to repair radial meniscal tears, including inside-out, outside-in, and all-inside techniques, conventional repair techniques focus only on stabilizing the damaged portion. This Technical Note describes a biomechanical meniscus repair technique of meniscal circumferential fiber augmentation, concomitant with conventional repair, to promote meniscal healing from a biomechanical perspective...
October 2023: Arthroscopy Techniques