No one likes being sidelined by knee pain. And if your ache is from a torn meniscus, it can linger for weeks. Contrary to popular belief, meniscus tears aren’t exclusive to athletes. They can happen ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many people think a torn meniscus is an injury that only happens to athletes. But that’s not the case. It turns out you can ...

Combining in-clinic physical therapy with home exercise did not lead to greater reductions in knee pain for patients with degenerative meniscal tear, a randomized trial showed. Among 879 patients, the ...

People with a meniscal tear and osteoarthritis prescribed home exercises with or without physical therapy reported substantial improvements in knee pain, according to a new study led by Mass General ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I was diagnosed with a torn meniscus in my knee. I do not want an operation. I have read that physical therapy is as effective as surgery, but I don’t know what exercises to do. I had ...

Arthroscopic knee surgery is a minimally invasive procedure that’s commonly done to help “clean out” your knee joint if you’ve got degenerative arthritis, or to clip out pieces of a torn meniscus that ...

A randomized trial showed that adding in-clinic physical therapy to home exercise did not lead to greater reductions in knee pain for patients with degenerative meniscal tear. Added text message ...