Peter Attia· MD
sometimes you just need to trim it where you take out the torn piece of meniscus and you just leave what remains so that's the difference between a meniscus repair and a meniscectomy
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sometimes you just need to trim it where you take out the torn piece of meniscus and you just leave what remains so that's the difference between a meniscus repair and a meniscectomy
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if the person's 60 years old they don't usually get bucket handle tears it's more of a complete complex degenerative just like the tendon and the cartilage the meniscus also goes through these changes with senescent cells and and Matrix that is unhealthy um and so those you can't repair you put stitches and it's not repairing so in those cases you trim the piece
there are certain types of Tears where you would always repair a bucket handle no no if because if it's it depends if the person's 60 years old they don't usually get bucket handle tears it's more of a complete complex degenerative just like the tendon and the cartilage the meniscus also goes through these changes with senescent cells and and Matrix that is unhealthy um and so those you can't repair you put stitches and it's not repairing so in those cases you trim the piece