You've been living with the pain for years. In fact, you can't remember a time when your knee didn't throb or swell every time you took a flight of stairs, or when a short jog to the bus stop didn't feel like a half-marathon.
Traditional surgery offers limited and short-lived relief.
Doctors say you'll eventually need a total knee replacement. Meanwhile you wake up every morning with pain, and take the pain to bed with you at night. Many of these injuries happen to people considered too young to undergo artificial knee replacement surgery. Fortunately, there are new treatment options - many of them available only in the last five years. Many of these surgeries are performed arthroscopically through small incisions and usually require no more than an overnight hospital stay.