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Steve Y's avatar

A tale of 2 medial meniscus tears:

Left knee: late fall of 2021

Right knee: late fall of 2022

Symptom progression: Both gradually progressed from minor swelling to major swelling, severe pulsing pain especially at night, extremely limited mobility, walking (well limping) with poles. Both confirmed with MRI.

Left knee: surgery in early February to remove the allegedly small torn portion. With near full recovery with lots of physical therapy and initial immobility, gradually improving over 8 weeks. Still have some pain from minor bone-bone contact (a guess) on the anterior medial tibia-femur junction. Have occasional minor cracking/popping.

Right knee. Received red light therapy device the day after Christmas. Used it 2x/day at first and then 1x/day for 10-20 minutes. Within 1 day, pain, swelling and immobility decreased by 50%. Within 3 days by 95%. Very near full recovery in 6 weeks. Still have minor soreness when I use it heavily. Tear confirmed with MRI 5 days after start of treatment when symptoms were mostly gone.

I currently treat both knees regularly with sunlight in season and red light in winter. I also use DMSO on both knees regularly.

Julie K's avatar

I use red light and I have to say it absolutely works for me

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