Walk It Off: Exercise Therapy for Meniscal Tears on Par With Surgery
Exercise-based physical therapy remained noninferior to arthroscopic partial meniscectomy for treating degenerative meniscal tears, according to longer-term data from the ESCAPE trial, suggesting physical therapy be the preferred treatment over surgery. By the 5-year mark, patient-reported knee function after 16 sessions of physical therapy was non-inferior to that observed after surgery, with a between-group difference […]