What is the current standard of care for treating knees?
Dr. Micheli: We deal primarily with knee problems in the child athlete. Our major goal in the area of child sports injuries is to promote early identification and diagnosis of injuries and in most cases, early treatment before further damaged has been done to the knee. This includes conditions such as osteochondritis dissecans and anterior cruciate ligament injuries in children. Knee1: How has arthroscopy changed over the years with advancing technology? Dr. Micheli: Arthroscopy has become increasingly sophisticated. The quality of the telescopes and decreased size of the telescopes has greatly aided us particularly in the management of smaller knees in smaller children. In addition, the hand instruments and the mechanical instruments have also been decreased in size so that now they are much more practical for using it on the children that we deal with. Knee1: What is the most common injury that you treat? Dr. Micheli: The most common injury we deal this in this age group still involv
