Clinicians Debate Use Of Arthroscopy In Patients With Osteoarthritis

Thursday, September 11, 2008 - 11:28 in Health & Medicine

Arthroscopic surgery for osteoarthritis of the knee provides no additional benefit to optimized physical and medical therapy, a new study shows. An accompanying editorial, however, points out that the study has some weaknesses and argues strongly that arthroscopy does have a role in some patients with osteoarthritis.

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