What is Knee Arthroscopy?

Knee Arthroscopy is keyhole knee surgery that allows Mr Webb to see inside your knee joint using a camera inserted through small skin incisions around your knee.

It can diagnose and treat a wide range of knee injuries and problems that cause pain, swelling, stiffness, restricted movement and, impact on your everyday tasks, sleep and quality of life and, are not responding to non-surgical treatments such as physiotherapy, medication and injections.

During Knee Arthroscopy, Mr Webb inserts a small camera, called an arthroscope, into your knee joint. The camera displays pictures on a video monitor, and Mr Webb uses these images to examine and diagnose your knee condition.

Once your surgeon has diagnosed the problem, either from an MRI scan, or from the arthroscopy, he may decide to treat your knee during the same procedure by guiding miniature surgical instruments to repair or remove damaged tissue.

Knee Arthroscopy is usually carried out under a general anaesthetic as a day case procedure, typically taking between thirty minutes to an hour in total.