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AARON KRYCH: We really take a comprehensive look. We think the knee is more like an organ than it is like a joint. Mayo Clinic Sports has been an innovative leader in the area of ligaments, articular cartilage, and meniscus. We really feel it's important to get the diagnosis right the first time.

BRUCE LEVY: So we have a very good idea when the patients come in how they're going to do.

DANIEL SARIS: We have a group of non-surgical specialists with orthobiologics-- cell therapy, injectables-- to try and improve tendons, try and improve cartilage.

JEFFREY PAYNE: And so we're trying to harness our own body's ability to heal and place those growth factors right in the area of injury.

AARON KRYCH: So what we previously required surgery to do, they can now do with an ultrasound-guided procedure in the office.

JACOB SELLON: Because you can see right through the skin and the patients are left with a smaller scar and a much faster recovery.

JEFFREY PAYNE: Specifically with respect to tendon pain, there is something called shockwave therapy and facilitate that healing response within the tendon.

AARON KRYCH: And we've also come up with a variety of surgical innovative methods.

MICHAEL J. STUART: We know that meniscus removal can result in the development of arthritis. So we have pioneered techniques on how to save the meniscus.

KELECHI OKOROHA: Oftentimes, we can treat that nonoperatively with an injection with a corticosteroid or viscosupplementation that will manage the patient's pain without surgery.

EDWARD LASKOWSKI: If you've had an injury or whatever that hasn't been treated in a comprehensive fashion, we can do that here.

AARON KRYCH: One example is ACL surgery. So sometimes we'll see that the ACL graft has failed, but there is another issue in the knee that contributed to the ligament failing.

BRUCE LEVY: As we tend to see here at Mayo very complex problems in the knee, and oftentimes, these patients will need multiple surgeries to get the knee to a high level of function.

DANIEL SARIS: And the thing that we have here that probably sets us apart is a group of highly trained professionals with different points of view which, together, come up with a solution that fits the patient.

AARON KRYCH: Always trying to be on the cutting edge when it comes to the knee. I think we're achieving outcomes that we didn't even really recognize was possible just 5 and 10 years ago.

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