The knee joint has two horseshoe or C-shaped pieces of hard cartilage called the menisci. There’s a medial (inside edge) and lateral (outside edge) meniscus. Both menisci are attached to the bone.

The medial meniscus is also attached to the joint capsule and one of the ligaments. These extra attachments make it less mobile but also more likely to tear under force. In fact the medial meniscus is torn twice as often as the lateral.

When the meniscus is torn and the tear goes the length of the cartilage it’s called a bucket handle tear. If you could touch the torn meniscus, it’s possible to lift the torn section up like a bucket handle.

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  Doctors generally prefer to try conservative treatments before using more aggressive forms of treatment. When symptoms don’t improve with physical therapy, doctors may recommend an injection into the shoulder joint. The injection is typically a steroid medicine, a painkiller, or both. Filling the joint with medicine helps with inflammation and pain. It also stretches the tight joint capsule. Resuming physical therapy soon after the injection enhances the benefits of the shoulder stretches you do in therapy.

If symptoms continue and shoulder motion still does not improve, your doctor may recommend a treatment called manipulation under anesthesia. This procedure is done by forcefully stretching the tight shoulder of a patient who is asleep from anesthesia.

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