. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Feb 15.

Published in final edited form as: Ann Rheum Dis. 2024 Feb 15;83(3):274–276. doi: 10.1136/ard-2023-224675

Table 1.

Risk Factors for Pain and Cartilage Loss after ACL Tear

Risk Factors for Pain	Risk Factors for Cartilage Loss
Chondral Damage	Chondral Damage
Mensical Damage^*	Meniscal Damage
Older Age	Older Age
Higher BMI	Higher BMI
Persistent Knee Pain after Tear	????

While not seen in recent analysis, unpublished analyses from MOON show that severe meniscal damage (not as common as meniscal tears) is highly associated with pain. Further, a meta-analysis has shown a strong association between meniscal tears and later OA¹²