Arthroscopy elbow, wrist, ankle, foot, and hip. Knee arthroscopy, or arthroscopic knee surgery, is an ineffective surgery that uses arthroscopic surgical techniques. People who undergo this surgery for "wear and tear" joint pain, including osteoarthritis and meniscal tears, usually have high hopes for the results, but repeated scientific studies have show that they actually end up with results that are no better than if they had skipped all of the pain, disruption, and risks of the surgery and instead only did the many hours of required post-surgery physical therapy. It has, in many cases, replaced the classic open surgery (arthrotomy) that
Murder for body parts Murder for body parts The murder of human beings for their body parts is a crime in all countries. Such practices have been confirmed or suspected to occur within a handful of contexts. Medicine murder (not to be confused with "medical murder" due to medical negligence) means the killing of a human being in order to excise body parts to use as medicine or for magical purposes in witchcraft. Medicine murder is not viewed as a form of human sacrifice in a religious sense, because the motivation is not the death of a human or the effecting of magical changes