Pain-free knees thanks to slit through nerves for patients with chronic knee pain, which supposedly all treatment options have exhausted, but still not pain-free, can live the Evangelical Hospital (EvK) in Hattingen offers a surgical method that rather rabidly sounds at first glance: Dr. Karl Schuhmann, head of the Department of plastic, aesthetic and hand surgery at the EvK Hattingen, cut through the pain-conducting nerve in the outer tissue of the knee. Thus, the pain is permanently switched off, although the causes for the pain (so injury or wear and tear on bone, cartilage or ligaments) would still exist. 300 of this intervention, according to the House, has already made Dr. Schuhmann. The severing of nerves, so Dr. Schuhmann, “cause this not paralysis, because the nerve conductive pain control no muscle function.” The “knee joint denervation” (= nerve elimination) right is lt. EvK including for elderly and infirm patients, for a classic Surgery was too risky. Read the whole report on the treatment method on dr_karl_schuhmann… rheinruhrmed.de is a free and independent online health magazine for the Rheinland and Ruhr area and is published by a group of freelance journalist from the region. rheinruhrmed.de is a pure information portal (without any consulting activity!); the online magazine is financed exclusively through advertising. M. Rabe