Meniscus - intro

• MENISCUS OVERVIEW
• intro
• functional anatomy
• anatomy issues
• terminology
• mechanisms of injury
• diagnosis
• tears - position
• tears - types
• meniscectomy
• repair
• replacement
• discoid meniscus
• meniscal cyst

The menisci are the shock-absorbers of the knee - wedged horizontally inbetween the femur and the tibia.

They fill in the incongruency between the rounded ends of the femur bone and the flattened ends of the tibia bone upon which the femur sits.

Menisci are squeezed between the rounded ends of the femur (the femoral condyles or rounded ends of the thigh bone) and the flat upper surface of the tibia (the tibial plateau or upper surface of the shinbone) - so they are difficult to see, and hard to explore.