290 | Meniscus Injury? What Does The Research Say?

Is your meniscus injury worrying you? Considering surgery but feel like there's a way out? Dr. Jen & Dr. Dom dive into the current research on surgery versus conservative treatment in long-term symptom management and knee health. Dr. Dom shares his journey with his Meniscus injury on both legs, speaking about his mistakes and rehabilitation journey with surgery and no surgery. Dr. Jen & Dr. Dom highlight the importance of attempting rehabilitation before surgery, breaking down how mobility, muscle activations and stabilization exercises, and strength in the posterior chain are vital to the initial stages of injury rehabilitation. Learn to train and rehabilitate the knees to tolerate all of life's uncertainties! Move2Improve Begins Today, But You Can Still Join! : MOVE2IMPROVE CHALLENGE! It combines strength workouts, mobility, core workouts and muscle activities to help you build that foundational movement back into your body SAFELY, with EASE, and with EDUCATION. Let's get back into strength and mobility starting March 6th. Join the rest of the community and us for 30 days with lives with special guests and opportunities to win prizes! Join today and start with hundreds of people as we move through 30 days of safe movement and education! What You Will Learn In This PT Pearl: 04:02 – Dom’s experience with Meniscus Injury 07:14 – Affected population and types of meniscal injury 08:34 – Current research on meniscal degeneration 12:11 – Caveats: Approach knee locking 17:09 – Osteoarthritis progression and rehabilitation around surgery 18:21 – It’s not just about quadricep strength 21:14 – Mobility related to knee 23:42 – Surgery may not fix your pain for life To Watch the PT Pearl on YouTube, click here: https://youtube.com/watch/ For research and full show notes, visit the full website at: https://www.docjenfit.com/podcast/episode290/ Thank you so much for checking out this episode of The Optimal Body Podcast. If you haven’t done so already, please take a minute to subscribe and leave a quick rating and review of the show! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.