Meniscus Tear Symptoms: Early Warning Signs, Causes, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Recovery

You twist to catch a ball, feel a small pop, and keep playing. By the next morning, your knee feels tight, swollen, and oddly “stuck.” That pattern brings many patients into orthopedic clinics, and it often points to a meniscus tear. Meniscus tear symptoms include knee pain along the joint line, swelling, stiffness, clicking, locking,…