By Rebecca Blyth A ground-breaking study in 2002 suggested that arthroscopic debridement or lavage of the knee joint was no better than placebo surgery[1], yet this is a still a surgical option today. It’s confirmed that the benefits from arthroscopic knee surgery in degenerative knee disease are absent at one to two years follow-up and […]
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Treating Elite Athletes — Challenging Sports Medicine
1. “Should team doctors encourage, discourage or be neutral about treatment modalities with limited evidence?” 2. “Should sports physicians treat their team/elite athletes differently to their regular patients?” BJSM readers will have strong opinions about these questions. Recent BJSM articles by McCrory, Cook and Maffulli and colleagues provide a physician, physiotherapist, and surgical opinion on […]