What is arthroscopic surgery?
Traditional surgery involves making an incision big enough for a surgeon to see inside the body and to manipulate the instruments needed to perform the task. While this allows for a good view of the area being worked on, open surgery incisions can be quite large and require more time and care for healing. Arthroscopic surgery involves making a few tiny incisions, perhaps only a few centimeters long, and using long slender instruments and a camera to see inside the body. The surgeon inserts the instruments and the camera and performs the surgery without putting his or her hands inside the body. The advantages to this type of surgery include faster healing time because the incisions aren't as large and the inside of the body has not been handled and manipulated as much as they would be with a traditional open surgery.
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