Oschmann arthrotomy is a method of surgical treatment of diseases of the knee joint, proposed by the German surgeon Hans Oschmann at the end of the 18th century.
Unlike other methods of treating knee joints, knee arthrotomy allows you to preserve the integrity of the tissue and restore joint mobility, which significantly reduces the recovery time for patients after surgery. This method has become one of the most popular and frequently used, especially in orthopedics.
The history of the development of this method began at the beginning of the 17th century, when the French surgeon Ambroise Pare developed the method of open surgery, but this was the first attempt "