Quote Originally Posted by KnottedYet View Post
Knees are very cool things, and they have some very cool ways of "resetting" and repairing themselves. If you are not looking forward to surgery and are unsure about it, and willing to try another approach with PT, may I suggest you find a certified Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy PT (aka "McKenzie").

If an MDT certified therapist tells you that you are best served by getting surgery, then I'd say get surgery. You can search for certified therapists on this page: http://www.mckenziemdt.org/index_us.cfm
(and if you do, make sure wherever your insurance lets you go that you get a certified or diplomate therapist, not someone who just says "yeah, I know McKenzie" or who has just taken a couple classes)
wow, Knot, you are such an asset to this forum!!

Original Poster, i wanted to say, my DH had arthroscopic knee surgery (two knees, two different times) and it is the least invasive surgery i have ever seen. He walked out (with his knee in a brace/soft cast) with two bandaides on his knee.
But with every surgery, you will less when you are done than when you started; and there is recovery time. If you can do these exercises that Knot talks about and improve, boy, that's a huge gain!