Open AccessThe difficult balance between scientific evidence and clinical practice: the 2016 ESSKA meniscus consensus on the surgical management of degenerative meniscus lesions
Author(s) -
Seil R.,
Karlsson Jon,
Beaufils P.,
Becker R.,
Kopf S.,
Ollivier M.,
Denti M.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.806
H-Index - 125
eISSN - 1433-7347
pISSN - 0942-2056
DOI - 10.1007/s00167-017-4458-1
Subject(s) - meniscus , balance (ability) , medicine , physical medicine and rehabilitation , physics , incidence (geometry) , optics
evidence, they claimed that patients which were included in these RCT’s represent only a minority of those seeking advice for painful knees in association with DML. This is in accordance with the findings of ESSKA’s former president Lars Engebretsen and his team in relation with cartilage injuries. Our Norwegian colleagues found that patients qualifying for inclusions in RCT’s represented only 4% of the patients they saw in their cartilage clinic [11]. Although there are no exact figures for DML, clinical experience