MSU promotes health among faculty and staff. To ensure that employees receive correct and professional treatment, MSU offers the Best Doctors service to its employees.

Contacting Best Doctors grants access to one-on-one discussions with Member Advocates and medical record reviews from top specialists across the country.

The recommendations provided by the experts working with Best Doctors can put patients’ minds at ease and even save lives. The medical information given to Best Doctors is completely voluntary and confidential, and with your permission they can consult your own physician. The service is free and operates on your time. 

Best Doctors excels at explaining complicated medical conditions and treatments in a way that is easy to understand. This service provides MSU with information about specific medical conditions, such as arthrofibrosis, a complication of injury or trauma where scar tissue formed within the joint and surrounding the soft tissue spaces leads to painful restriction of joint motion, often despite rehabilitation exercises and stretches.

Excessive scar tissue can be a serious medical condition that causes extreme pain, immobility, and arthritis in the joints, as well as limping, heat, swelling, popping, grating or weakness.

Scarring adhesions can occur in most major joints, but arthrofibrosis of the knee is the most common occurrence.

Symptoms include stiffness, inability to straighten or flex the knee and difficulty sitting.

Treatment options for knee arthrofibrosis vary from braces and corticosteroid injections to physical therapy and surgery, or, less commonly, basic observation or splinting. Surgical treatment for arthrofibrosis can be very complex and depends on the patient and severity of the conditions and requires follow-up rehabilitation. View the entire Best Doctors arthrofibrosis description here.

Arthrofibrosis is one innumerable medical conditions of which Best Doctors can provide expert medical advice. The next time you face difficult medical treatment options, give Best Doctors a call at 1-866-904-0910.