People who face months of painful rehabilitation after surgery have a new hope now as the recuperating time for patients can be reduced by a newly-developed procedure to repair torn knee cartilage.

Instead of the normal procedure of cutting away damaged tissue, which takes months to heal, the Ultra Fast-Fix Meniscal Repair Device allows a torn cartilage to be stitched back into place.

People who were treated using the conventional were later in life 15 times more at risk of developing arthritis despite getting cured.

After a half-hour surgery, using general anesthetic in the new method, patients can go home. Using the procedure, it was seen that full recover was made by about 90 per cent of patients.

Acting as a shock absorber, and found throughout the body, cartilage is a tough tissue. Due to a sudden twisting motion, they can tear of as they become brittle with age. And damages can not heal fully due to them having a poor blood supply.

Ian McDermott, a knee surgeon at London Sports Orthopaedics said, "Until relatively recently, tears in the knee had to be trimmed or chopped out, leaving the knee with a reduced or even no shock-absorber. Thankfully, we now have another option."