Whether you need a replacement or just a clean up. Now when I refer to a part of the knee you can see where it is. First lets talk about a knee surgeon's most important tool, arthroscopy. The picture on the left is of arthroscopc knee surgery. The picture on the right is what the doctor sees on his screen.
Arthroscopic surgery is how doctors operate on a patient without having to fully cut open the body.
They use a series of small cameras and special tools to do the work. The cameras show a picture on a TV screen so the doctors can see what they're doing. Not having to make a cut in the patient and open the body, makes for faster healing and a quicker recovery by patients. Well besides the big word, it basicly means a partial knee reconstruction. This is an alternative, to full knee reconstruction, when all of the problems are on either the inside or outside half of the knee and the rest of it is normal.