Arthroscopic Surgery

What is an Arthroscopy? One year ago, I asked myself that question, as I was getting ready to have knee surgery. Furthermore, after research I found that an Arthroscopy is a procedure that allows doctors to look at your cartilage, joints, or other tissues through a small incision using a viewing tool called a scope. The scope has a light source and a video camera attached to it. Furthermore, a procedure like this can happen in many places, but the most common are done on a knee, shoulder, or ankle. Why do people have this surgery? Arthroscopic surgery is used to diagnose, treat, and monitor joint injuries and diseases that affect the joints. In my case, they performed the surgery to remove a piece of chipped cartilage that was floating around my knee. Other situations include repairing tendons or defining a diagnosis that could not be defined by other examinations. Furthermore, the procedure can also be used to check or repair joint damage. This procedure is also known to be 100% accurate to repairing the necessary problems that need to be repaired.

What is the procedure? To start off, the surgeons make two 1cm incisions around the area of surgery, for me the incisions were done on my left knee. In addition, they insert a solution called sterile sodium chloride …show more content…
Personally, my results were being able to run and be active without the constant knee pain and knee swelling after exercise. Depending on the extent of the surgery, the patients may need to go to physical therapy or doing gentle exercises such as yoga. The results will vary depending on preexisting conditions and recent surgeries.

There have been many debates on whether an arthroscopy is better than regular surgery, or if the results are better, but with my research and personal experience I believe they are better. The need to have a procedure can happen at any point, more than likely when you don’t expect it, but it is the way you take that experience that makes a