Knee Immobilization on Meniscal Healing After Suture

Clinical, Radiological, and Morphological Evaluations of Posterior Horn Tears of the Lateral Meniscus Left In Situ During Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

“…The involved knee, however, was protected by a functional ACL brace during weightbearing to prevent stressful force on the tear site for 6 weeks, as it usually takes 6 weeks for the repaired meniscus to heal. 16 There were some limitations in the current study. First, the number of the patients who underwent second-look arthroscopic surgery and follow-up MRI to evaluate morphological restoration was small.…”

Tibio-femoral joint contact forces in sheep

“…Sheep and goats have become standard models for investigating biological responses during healing, as well as understanding the mechanical conditions that occur after injury and investigating surgical treatments such as cartilage repair (Evans et al, 2004;von Rechenberg et al, 2004), meniscal healing (Guisasola et al, 2002;Mora et al, 2003) and ligament reconstruction (Bosch and Kasperczyk, 1992;Weiler et al, 2002;Field et al, 2003). Whilst biology plays a role in the long term outcome of these surgical treatments, the mechanical forces, recognised to be multiples of body weight (BW) (Bergmann et al, 1984(Bergmann et al, , 1999Taylor et al, 2004), are also known to influence the course of healing.…”

Cell study of the three areas of the meniscus: Effect of growth factors in an experimental model in sheep

“…The synovial fluid plays an important role in the nutrition of the intra‐articular structures and the superficial capillaries of the synovium present pores, which facilitate the exchange of nutrients between the blood and the synovial fluid 7. It is widely accepted that repaired longitudinal meniscal tears in the vascular periphery heal in most cases, but the healing is not achieved if the lesion is situated in the avascular area 8…”