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2. Bucket handle tear - Wikipedia

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   Each meniscus has an outer vascular zone (red-red zone), which has a good blood supply and healing potential as well as a central avascular zone (white-white zone), which has limited healing capability. [2] The medial meniscus is more prone to injury due to its firm attachment to the joint capsule and limited mobility. The lateral meniscus is ...

3. Meniscus tear - Wikipedia

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   A tear of a meniscus is a rupturing of one or more of the fibrocartilage strips in the knee called menisci.When doctors and patients refer to "torn cartilage" in the knee, they actually may be referring to an injury to a meniscus at the top of one of the tibiae.

4. Meniscal cartilage replacement therapy - Wikipedia

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   The majority of the meniscus has no blood supply. As a result, if the meniscus is damaged, from trauma or with age, it is unable to undergo the body’s normal healing process. Therefore, a torn piece can begin to move inside the joint, get caught between the bones, and cause pain, swelling, and decreased mobility.

5. Torn ACLs may heal with therapy instead of surgery, though ...

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   An unstable knee could contribute to a potential tear of the meniscus — the shock-absorbing cushion of cartilage in the knee — which increases risks of osteoarthritis. ACL reconstruction can ...

6. The Real Reason Your Knee Is Swollen, According to Doctors

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   Two common knee injuries: a torn ACL (the ligament that runs across the front of your knee and connects the thigh and shin bones) and a torn meniscus (cartilage that acts as cushion between the ...

7. Articular cartilage damage - Wikipedia

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   When the damage increases and the chondral defect reaches the subchondral bone, the blood supply in the bone starts a healing process in the defect. Scar tissue made up of a type of cartilage called fibrocartilage is then formed. Although fibrocartilage is able to fill in articular cartilage defects, its structure is significantly different ...