Presentation

• O: Acute onset Knee Pain , often traumatic cause
  • Medial > Lateral
• T: get better over time
• Aggregating: squadding, pivoting
• Alleviating: N/A
• Associated: mechanical clicking, locking, instability (giving away), swelling
• Physical exams
  • Point tenderness
  • Presences of Effusion: Bulge sign - small knee effusions
  • Meniscus - McMurray Test

Investigation

• Order MRI if NOT self-limited in 3 mon.

Treatment

1st line: Conservative Management

• 50% Pain self-limited in 3 mon.
  • RICE (Soft Tissue Injury)
  • Order MRI if pain persist > 3 mon.
• Tear don’t repair itself

2ed line: Arthroscopic Surgery

• Arthroscopic repair
• Partial meniscectomy