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Our Treatment

Non-surgical Rehabilitation

When you visit BodyZone Physiotherapy , our initial treatments for a torn meniscus focus on decreasing pain anin your knee. Rest and anti-inflammatory medications, such as aspirin, can help decrease these symptoms. You muse crutches until you can walk without a limp.

Our physiotherapist will treat your swelling and pain with the use of ice, electrical stimulation, and rest periods wsupported in elevation. Exercises are used to help you regain normal movement of joints and muscles. Exercises knee range of motion and strength are added gradually. Our physiotherapist may also help you to obtain and use brace.

Although recovery time varies, nonsurgical rehabilitation for a meniscal injury typically lasts six to eight weeks. return to your sporting activities when your quadriceps and hamstring muscles are back to nearly their full strengcontrol, you are not having swelling that comes and goes, and you aren't having problems with the knee giving w

Post-surgical Rehabilitation

Rehabilitation proceeds cautiously after surgery on the meniscus, and treatments will vary depending on whetherpart of the meniscus taken out or your surgeon repaired or replaced the meniscus.

Patients are strongly advised to follow their physiotherapist's recommendations about how much weight can be bstanding or walking. After a partial meniscectomy, we may instruct you to place a comfortable amount of weightoperated leg using a walking aid. After a meniscal repair, however, you may be instructed to keep your knee stralocked knee brace and to put only minimal or no weight on your foot when standing or walking for up to six wee

BodyZone Physiotherapy patients usually need only a few physiotherapy visits after meniscectomy. We may readditional treatments if there are problems with swelling, pain, or weakness. Rehabilitation is slower after a menor allograft procedure. At first, expect to see our physiotherapist two to three times a week. If your surgery and rego as planned, you may only need to do a home program and see our physiotherapist every few weeks over a sixweek period.

Surgery

If the knee keeps locking up and can't be straightened out, surgery may be recommended as soon as reasonably premove the torn part that is getting caught in the knee joint. But even a less severely torn meniscus may not heal If symptoms continue after nonsurgical treatment, surgery will probably be suggested to either remove or repair t

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