Most people are told a torn meniscus needs surgery to "clean it out".  But in this episode, orthopedic surgeon Dr. Jason Snibbe tells me that roughly 30% of those patients end up needing a full knee replacement within three to six months, because the cleanout itself is trauma that speeds up the joint's breakdown. Instead, he uses a simple platelet-rich plasma injection that gets many patients 70 to 80% better from a single shot, sending them back to tennis and golf without ever going under the knife. As he put it to me, "I don't operate on your MRI, I operate on how you feel." We also get into "prehab," why your knee pain often starts in your hip, how robotic surgery spares the muscle older methods destroy, and why his patients are walking within an hour of a joint replacement.