Backgrounds on etiopathogenesis, diagnosis and classification of the lesions of the meniscus in sportsmen

Abstract

The variety and multitude of the sportive branches, the number continuously increasing of the performance sportsmen, the intense solicitations imposed to those determine a various and extended range of affections of which treatment must be oriented so that it achieves the integral and fast recovery of the functional abilities of the injured segment. Thus, the main objective of the sportive traumatology is rather the prevention from occurrence of the traumatic affections through their diagnosis and treatment applied in preclinical stage than their treatment in a reversible stage. These principles are applied also in the case of the lesions of the meniscus, which, if they are fast and correctly treated, make the reinsertion of the sportsman in the competitional activity done as fast as possible.

Key words:

meniscus, traumatism, symptomatology, arthroscopy