Regenerative Treatment - Partial Meniscus Tears Treatment in Ireland or Uk

Meniscus tear is a painful condition, and its symptoms include:

• Painful joints where the pain gets aggravated by pressure
• Swelling and stiffness of the knee joint
• Difficulty in bending and straightening the knees
• Locked knee
• Popping sensation when the meniscus dislodges

The pain in the initial days of the injury is usually mild. But with time, the intensity of pain increases gradually and becomes severe.

Conventionally, the meniscus tear is taken care of by following the R.I.C.E. routine, sometimes along with pain management therapy. The R.I.C.E. routine includes:

• Rest: Provide adequate rest to the affected knee.
• Ice: Apply ice wrapped by a cloth on the affected knee at regular intervals.
• Compression: Apply pressure by tying a bandage around the affected knee to reduce inflammation.
• Elevation: Elevate the affected knee to avoid swelling.

If there is no relief from pain by following the R.I.C.E. routine, the doctors conventionally recommend consuming non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for a shorter duration only.

Your doctors may also recommend the administration of corticosteroid injections. But it provides relief only for a shorter period.

In a few cases, the doctors suggest surgery as an alternative, if conventional methods do not reduce the pain or the meniscus tear is more severe.

Surgical treatment always ends up with an extensive rehabilitation period and significant complications. Hence before finalizing the surgical procedure, it is always better to opt for an alternate non-surgical method namely Regenerative Medicine, which utilizes your body’s cells to regenerate, heal or regrow the repaired tissues naturally and quickly.

The meniscus acts as a shock absorber to the knee and if damaged, can cause pain in the knee. Hence its partial tear, especially in the area where there is good blood supply, it reacts very well to regenerative treatments.

Some of the benefits of PRP injections include:

• Reduce the need for anti-inflammatories or stronger medications that comprise of steroids.
• Platelet Rich Plasma therapy is a minimally invasive, non-surgical same-day procedure with minimal recovery time.
• No general anaesthesia is required, and mostly there is no need to take any post-operative pain medication. You are awake during the procedure and ready to go home soon after the injection into the affected area.
• There is no risk of rejection or cross-transmission of disease, as the PRP injections contain biologic material harvested from your body.

To determine if you are a qualified candidate and will benefit the most from PRP treatment, you need to schedule an appointment with our Clinic. Our Consultant will review your medical records, examine your condition, and determine if you are a suitable candidate for regenerative treatments.

The choice of the partial meniscus tears treatment in Ireland or UK is at the discretion of the Consultant, depending on the individual case. In some instances, it may be a combination of more than one treatment protocol. The options of Regenerative Medicine other than PRP therapy include Prolotherapy, Stromal vascular fraction therapy, and Mesenchymal cell therapy.

Before going ahead with the treatment do disclose the medications that you are taking with the Consultant, as some medicine hampers the efficacy of PRP injection.

So, do not let the partial meniscus tear completely when natural healing is possible non-surgically using regenerative therapy.