Knee Arthoscopy

Knee arthroscopy helps orthopedic surgeons to visualize the damaged knee part. Due to this, it helps to diagnose the medical condition. It is used to treat the condition affecting the knee part surgically. Dr Pramod Bhor provides knee arthroscopy in Navi Mumbai with the latest techniques and equipment to identify and treat knee pain that cannot be treated with medication. He studies the patient’s condition and recommends arthroscopy if required.

About Knee Arthroscopy

Knee arthroscopy surgeons use arthroscope to identify and treat a range of knee injuries. In this process, your knee arthroscopy surgeon in Navi Mumbai uses a tiny camera and inserts it through an incision. This camera shows images of your knee from the inside. The image appears on a screen and assists your knee arthroscopy doctor in diagnosing any issue inside of your knee.

Knee arthroscopy is a less invasive surgical process. This process needs small cuts compared to conventional surgery. The small incisions are about the keyhole size. To treat structural issues, your orthopedic doctor inserts small tools through another incision. They use these tools to remove any damaged part or repair it.

Complications Associated With a Knee Arthroscopy

There are risks involved with any type of surgery, there is no doubt that they are rare. Every surgery performed includes risks such as:

• Infection at the surgery site
• During the surgical process, severe bleeding
• Breathing issues due to anesthesia
• Allergic reaction due to medications administered during the surgical process
• Allergic reaction as anesthesia is given to patients

There also specific risks to a knee arthroscopy that are:

• Blood clot formation in the leg
• Infection inside your knee joint
• Bleeding inside your knee joint
• Damage to the cartilage
• Injury to ligaments
• Damage to meniscus
• Damage to nerves of the knee or blood vessels.

Reasons Why Knee Arthroscopy is Performed?

Knee Arthroscopy is performed to diagnose and treat different medical conditions including:

• Meniscal tear
• Misaligned patella
• Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction
• Torn floating cartilage
• Patellofemoral instability
• Knee infection
• Swollen synovium
• Removal of Baker’s cysts

Who Needs a Knee Arthroscopy?

An orthopedic surgeon recommends knee arthroscopy if you are having knee pain that doesn’t get better with medications. Non-surgical treatments include ice, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, physical therapy or rest. Arthritis leads to knee pain and arthroscopic knee surgery is not a wise option for osteoarthritis.

Your orthopedic doctor performs arthroscopy to get a better cartilage look, soft tissues and bones inside your knee. They use the procedure to identify different knee injuries. Most of them affect cartilage and ligaments in your knee joint.

What Happens After Knee Arthroscopy Treatment?

Knee arthroscopic patients can go home on the same day after the knee arthroscopy surgery is performed. Usually, the knee arthroscopy success rate is 90-95 percent according to medical sources. The process of knee arthroscopy takes about an hour. You might have to stay in the hospital for a day if required. Once the knee arthroscopy is performed, you might feel some pain. After recovering from knee arthroscopy for the first few days after the surgical process, you must:

Benefits of Knee Arthroscopy

Here are several benefits of knee arthroscopy including:

Better return to function
Injuries involving knee joints before the arthroscopic knee surgery end a professional athlete or sports player career. Now, with the development of knee arthroscopic surgery, it is possible for sports players to return to their careers.

Reduces trauma to healthy tissue
With an open procedure, a few tissues might need a cut so that gives an orthopedic doctor access to identify the problem area.

Less postoperative pain
You may experience pain or discomfort after your knee arthroscopy. However, the postoperative pain is less with knee arthroscopy, as the cuts are small. This is one of the major benefits of knee arthroscopic surgery.

Less scarring
As the knee arthroscopy is performed using small cuts, it reduces scar tissue as your orthopedic surgeon can adjust the small tools so that they can identify the issue. It means less damage to your healthy tissue. Once knee arthroscopy is completed, you can see small cuts where the arthroscope was placed.

Less inflammation and swelling
Knee arthroscopy makes small cuts versus open surgery that might need large skin openings. Less soft tissue is exposed to trauma, so with knee arthroscopic surgery, you have less pain, less inflammation and less swelling compared to open surgery.

Less blood loss during knee arthroscopy
Once the knee arthroscopy is performed, patients may find that they have less blood loss compared to what they would have with an open surgical procedure.

Get back to work faster
You can not only return home after knee arthroscopic surgery, but you can resume work and get back to your normal routine within a few days. This is the most important benefit of knee arthroscopic surgery.

Minimizes Infection Risk
As the cuts are small, less internal tissue gets exposed which minimizes the infection risk.

If you are planning for a knee arthroscopy in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra or wish to know more about knee arthroscopy then please contact Dr. Pramod Bhor for more details.