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Doctors and Patients Say ‘No’ to Arthroscopy for Arthritis

About 1 million knee arthroscopies are performed each year in the United States, at a cost of more than $3 billion. Now, in new guidelines, an international panel of experts has strongly recommended against the surgery for nearly everyone with “degenerative knee disease.” Degenerative knee disease is another way to refer to knee osteoarthritis (OA), and includes degenerative meniscus tears, trouble with knee movement and sudden onset of pain and swelling. The guidelines were published in the journal BMJ in May.

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