OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Thousands of Americans undergo common knee surgery each year, but following a decade-long research, that might not be the most effective option.
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The Finnish study, published in April in the New England Journal of Medicine, shown the surgery left many patients worse off.
“I don’t know how I would defend this procedure at all,” said one of the study’s authors, Teppo Järvinen, an orthopedist and head of the Finnish Centre for Evidence-Based Orthopaedics.
“What has been shown dramatically is that patients who have this procedure have more pain — they do worse. All the scores pointed in the same direction.”…