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Therapy

Physical therapy can help you strengthen the muscles around your knee and in your legs to help stabilize and support the knee joint.

Surgery

If your knee remains painful despite rehabilitative therapy or if your knee locks, your doctor might recommend surgery. It's sometimes possible to repair a torn meniscus, especially in children and young adults.

If the tear can't be repaired, the meniscus might be surgically trimmed, possibly through tiny incisions using an arthroscope. After surgery, you will need to do exercises to optimize knee strength and stability.******per-Mayo Clinic*******************************************

So did the doctor say it has to be trimmed around the knee? If I read correctly, only children or young adults can possibly have it repaired but after that age it will have to be trimmed.

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tiny incisions using an arthroscope

That sounds much better than laying it open. I won't see the ortho until next week. Glad I finally found a doctor who didn't poo poo me off by handing out $35 aspirins.