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Meniscus Tears
The meniscus is rubbery knee cartilage between your thigh bone and shinbone. A meniscus tear can happen quickly due to a forceful twisting of your knee and can cause swelling, pain, stiffness, and mobility issues.
A meniscus tear can take a long time to heal, even if surgery is not needed. And meanwhile, the injury keeps you from enjoying many of the activities you love. If you’d like to treat your knee injury without surgery, Orthobiologics Associates offers safe and effective stem cell injections for meniscus tears and platelet-rich plasma injections for meniscus tears that can help.
Our regenerative medicine clinics are full-service orthobiologic treatment facilities capable of harvesting autologous restorative cells from many tissues, including fat, bone marrow, and blood. When you trust our trained professionals to perform your meniscus repair without surgery, they’ll determine which therapeutic option is appropriate based on the severity of your condition and other health factors.
Orthobiologics for Meniscus Tears
Cell Therapy Ortho-Biologics leverages natural regenerative healing to treat pain and mobility issues. Many patients experience results within weeks, though full recovery may take up to a year. The outcome will vary depending on the severity of your problem.
We stimulate regeneration and healing by introducing natural stem cells into the affected areas. This safe and effective procedure is quick, painless, and minimally invasive. Most patients report returning to normal daily activities within 24-48 hours.
Meniscus Tear Treatments
A professionally fitted brace may help your meniscus tear heal more quickly and may also allow you to avoid surgical intervention or other forms of treatment. Proper bracing will not only help prevent further damage to injured, vulnerable tissues, but also will help stabilize those tissues to promote more rapid healing. At our clinics, we carry an assortment of medical-grade bracing equipment and, when necessary, can fit you with a brace that’s well suited to your injury and lifestyle.
As an integrative medicine clinic, we offer multiple nonsurgical treatments in addition to PRP for meniscus tears and stem cells for torn meniscus repair. Having various therapeutic options at our disposal allows us to help alleviate many painful and debilitating symptoms while promoting your most positive treatment outcome.
What Happens If You Ignore Meniscus Tears?
Untreated meniscus tears can have serious, pervasive, and long-lasting negative effects on any individual’s knee health and overall well-being. Ignoring persistent pain or swelling in the affected knee may cause the discomfort or inflammation to grow progressively worse. The more pronounced that discomfort becomes, the more likely it will result in mobility issues that make performing daily activities uncommonly challenging and painful.
Unaddressed meniscus tears can also grow larger, destabilize the knee joint, and negatively affect a person’s ability to balance, ambulate, and perform other physical activities. Whether chronic or acute, knee instability can heighten the risk of falls and additional injury to the knee or other areas of the body.
Even if falls do not become an issue, an untreated meniscus tear can cause joint degeneration over time and may contribute to chronic knee problems, such as arthritis. Moving around with a torn meniscus may also pull small fragments of fibrocartilage into the joint, which may cause the knee to lock or catch. In serious cases, removing such fragments may require surgery.
Ultimately, untreated meniscus tears can easily cause further damage to the knee joint, as well as the cartilage, ligaments, and tendons that provide crucial cushioning and stabilization for the entire knee. These potential complications may have lasting consequences, including serious discomfort and inflammation, that can negatively affect any person’s quality of life. Seeking prompt medical attention and treatment from a torn meniscus doctor is essential to help ensure the most positive long-term outcome for this common and often debilitating injury.
