- Twisting or contact
- Can occur concomitant w/ligament injury or as isolated problem
- In older adults→ degenerative tears common
- Acute/sub-acute pain
- Swelling hours to days later→ slower accumulation blood
- Chronic/recurrent sx of locking; instability/give-way, pain
- Location of pain sometimes helpful in identifying site of meniscal injury; e.g. medial meniscus--> medial pain; lateral meniscus--> lateral pain