The difficult balance between scientific evidence and clinical practice: the 2016 ESSKA meniscus consensus on the surgical management of degenerative meniscus lesions

evidence, they claimed that patients which were included in these RCT's represent only a minority of those seeking advice for painful knees in association with DML.This is in accordance with the findings of ESSKA's former president Lars Engebretsen and his team in relation with cartilage injuries.Our Norwegian colleagues found that patients qualifying for inclusions in RCT's represented only 4% of the patients they saw in their cartilage clinic [11].Although there are no exact figures for DML, clinical experience