Posterior Medial Meniscus Root Tears: Clinical Implications, Surgical Management, and Post-operative Rehabilitation Considerations.
Jill K Monson, Robert F LaPrade
PMID 39758694WHAT IT FOUND
This paper offers expert recommendations on rehab after posterior medial meniscus root repair, such as delaying deep squatting and hamstring curls.
It reports no patient outcomes, so these protocols are not tested interventions.
What this paper is
This is a clinical commentary describing the anatomy, diagnosis, and proposed rehabilitation phases for posterior medial meniscus root tears. It does not report original patient data, outcomes, or comparative results, so there are no findings here to change your practice on.
The easy way to misread this
Do not treat the described rehabilitation phases (e.g., 6 weeks non-weight bearing, delaying hamstring curls to 16 weeks) as evidence-based protocols; they are expert opinion derived from biomechanical theory, not clinical trial results.