A sports medicine physician specializes in comprehensive care, prevention, and treatment of injuries and illnesses for athletes and active individuals. Many of the conditions they treat are soft tissue injuries that occur from sports and other physical activities. These include partial or complete tearing of tendons and ligaments, muscle pulling, cartilage damage, and sprains. Here…
Meniscus Tear
Recovery From A Meniscus Tear
A meniscus tear is common in accidents that affect the knee. A torn knee cartilage can be a debilitating injury because it challenges your balance, mobility, function. The function of the knee cartilage or meniscus is to absorb shock and provide stability to your knee joint. When the cartilage tears, the symptoms are hard to…