Tara Shine

And they have found that the most common type of knee surgery is ineffective.

It doesn't work, doesn't do anything.

And in fact, it could possibly make things worse.

Wow.

And this is the most common orthopedic procedure globally.

I think this is amazing.

Yeah, so this is an amazing Finnish study.

It's a great example of collaboration, unlike the previous story I was talking about, but where they did clinical trials back between 2007 and 2012, and they had 126 participants take part, and they all had mechanical knee problems.

So that was like knee catching or knee locking, right?

And they were aged between 35 and 65, and they were randomly assigned to groups

And some of them got the actual surgery.

The surgery is called arthroscopic partial menisctomy.

And so part of them, half of them got the surgery and the half had a sham surgery or a placebo, basically.

So they didn't actually get the surgery, but they didn't know.

And they then reviewed the patients to look at what the impact had been two, six, and 12 months later.

And they found no statistical difference between the placebo and the actual surgery.

Just none.

And this caused consternation back in 2018 when they did the five-year follow-up and they published their results.

And

the whole orthopedic community was thrown into disarray and they were accused of having like, you know, malpractice in the way they had designed their trial or someone even said that they had, you know, recruited people that weren't of full mental capacity to take part in the trial.