{"id":481,"date":"2017-11-23T06:25:14","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T06:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gladnz.stage.bocki.com.au\/?p=481"},"modified":"2017-11-23T06:25:14","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T06:25:14","slug":"knee-arthroscopy-gaining-wrong-kind-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/gladnz\/knee-arthroscopy-gaining-wrong-kind-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"Knee arthroscopy gaining the wrong kind of attention!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors and medical researchers have known for years that knee arthroscopies are not useful for patients suffering knee osteoarthritis (OA), yet a total of 30,000 were preformed in 2014-15.<\/p>\n<p>Now, thanks to the a report commissioned by the Australian government &#8211; Shifting The Dial, knee arthroscopies have gained attention as they don&#8217;t pass a cost-effectiveness test, as well as not helping patients!<\/p>\n<p>For more info, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afr.com\/business\/health\/the-great-knees-up-the-operation-that-is-bad-for-australia-20171025-gz83lw\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But, if we stop surgeons from offering so many arthroscopies for knee OA, what can patients do instead? The answer &#8211; GLA:D, an evidence based, cost-effective, treatment option!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors and medical researchers have known for years that knee arthroscopies are not useful for patients suffering knee osteoarthritis (OA), yet a total of 30,000 were preformed in 2014-15. Now, thanks to the a report commissioned by the Australian government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41214,"featured_media":482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4431,12262],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","category-surgery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/gladnz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/gladnz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/gladnz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/gladnz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/gladnz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/gladnz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/gladnz\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/gladnz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/gladnz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/gladnz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}