What causes cartilage or ligament injuries?
Any twisting or turning event can cause an injury. Commonly, sports activities and other accidents are to blame. Which joints tend to be the most susceptible to injury? I think most physicians would agree that the knee is most susceptible to injury because it sustains most of the pivoting and jerking motions associated with sports activities. Amazingly, as more women become involved in sports we’re finding that women are at a significantly higher risk-more than 5 times greater risk than men, according to some studies-for ligament tears, especially ACL injuries. When is surgery necessary? For ligament tears, I recommend surgery if the patient has done further damage to the joint because the knee feels “sloppy” or is unstable. For cartilage repairs, surgery is necessary when the patient is in constant pain. Of the 4,000 knee injuries I evaluate each year, several hundred require surgery. What is the recovery time after surgery and what does it entail? The average recovery time after cart
