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| Knee operations are no better than painkillers, says leading surgeon |
| 2016-06-11 |
| Many knee operations conducted by keyhole surgery are no more effective than painkillers, according to a leading surgeon. Professor Andrew Carr said the success of such procedures was often down to the ‘placebo effect’, where patients feel better as a result of their belief in the treatment. He warned some who had keyhole knee surgery suffered serious complications such as infections or pulmonary embolisms. ‘Some people die,’ he said. ‘I don’t think we should be doing operations where the entire effect is placebo,’ the founder and director of the University of Oxford Institute of Musculoskeletal Sciences told the Cheltenham Science Festival. More at the link |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #5 Apply the leaches But lawyers don't know anything about knee surgery. |
| Posted by: gorb 2016-06-11 17:01 |
| #4 Most definitely NOT TRUE for me. I suffered a bucket handle tear in medial meniscus left side 1993, locked my knee in a partly flexed position, and was only relieved by an arthroscopic partial meniscectomy. Painkillers were completely useless. "good for awhile" - how about 23 YEARS? |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2016-06-11 16:59 |
| #3 Nice to see us going backwards. Painkillers no better than grain alcohol. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2016-06-11 14:31 |
| #2 Apply the leaches |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-06-11 13:16 |
| #1 Not necessarily true. If a person has a bucket-handled tear in the meniscus, often the cartilage causes the knee to lock up and painkillers are of little use. Arthroscopic (keyhole) surgery often will help for awhile. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2016-06-11 10:29 |