JRE MMA Show #185 with Ethyn Ewing · Aired Sep 2, 2026
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Medical studies comparing meniscus surgery versus physical therapy show that physical therapy is a more effective treatment path.
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The well known randomized trials on meniscus tears found that physical therapy produces outcomes roughly equal to surgery, not better than it. Doctors use these results to say surgery is often unnecessary, but the studies show a tie in effectiveness, not physical therapy winning out.
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Is it true that Medical studies comparing meniscus surgery versus physical therapy show that physical therapy is a more effective treatment path?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. The well known randomized trials on meniscus tears found that physical therapy produces outcomes roughly equal to surgery, not better than it. Doctors use these results to say surgery is often unnecessary, but the studies show a tie in effectiveness, not physical therapy winning out. Joe Rogan said it (matched by voice) on JRE MMA Show #185 with Ethyn Ewing, aired Sep 2, 2026, at 1:11:54. The supporting source is ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, linked below.
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