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Your meniscal tear will commonly take up to six or eight weeks to fully heal. As mentioned previously, some meniscal tears will require surgery. Your physiotherapist will guide you as to what is most likely for your knee injury.
1 If you have a tear that spreads from the red zone into the inner two-thirds of the meniscus (called the white zone), your decision is harder. 2  Surgery to repair these kinds of tears may not work. 3  If you have a tear in the white zone of the meniscus, repair surgery usually isn't done, because the meniscus may not heal. Surgery to repair these kinds of tears may not work. 2  If you have a tear in the white zone of the meniscus, repair surgery usually isn't done, because the meniscus may not heal. 3  But partial meniscectomy may be done if torn pieces of meniscus are causing pain and swelling.