Patients with meniscus lesions benefit from a combination of sham surgery and physiotherapy just as much as from a real surgical procedure - this was the conclusion reached in the Finnish FIDELITY study published in 2013.
Ever since then, there has been considerable discussion about the benefits of meniscus surgery compared with physiotherapy. After all, about 300,000 meniscus procedures were performed in Germany in 2013.
The question is: Should the non-surgical approach be preferred over surgical treatment or are there still advantages offered by surgery.
