{"id":18556,"date":"2026-01-05T13:29:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T10:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drabdollahifard.com\/?p=18556"},"modified":"2026-01-05T13:31:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T10:01:06","slug":"do-the-knee-menisci-have-blood-supply-and-nerves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drabdollahifard.com\/en\/blog\/do-the-knee-menisci-have-blood-supply-and-nerves\/","title":{"rendered":"Do the Knee Menisci Have Blood Supply and Nerves?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" data-start=\"1138\" data-end=\"1286\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drabdollahifard.com\/en\/blog\/benefits-of-knee-replacement-surgery\/\">Knee<\/a> menisci are divided into three vascular zones from the periphery toward the center: the <strong data-start=\"1231\" data-end=\"1243\">red zone<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1245\" data-end=\"1263\">red-white zone<\/strong>, and <strong data-start=\"1269\" data-end=\"1283\">white zone<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" data-start=\"1288\" data-end=\"1563\">Except for the peripheral region, most parts of the menisci are avascular and receive nutrition through diffusion from the synovial fluid. Approximately <strong data-start=\"1441\" data-end=\"1495\">10\u201330% of the outer margin of the lateral meniscus<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1500\" data-end=\"1540\">10\u201325% of the medial <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meniscus_(anatomy)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">meniscus<\/a> margin<\/strong> have a blood supply.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" data-start=\"1565\" data-end=\"1748\">Meniscal nerves follow the blood vessels, with the highest nerve density found in the <strong data-start=\"1651\" data-end=\"1683\">anterior and posterior horns<\/strong>, playing an important role in proprioception and pain sensation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knee menisci are divided into three vascular zones from the periphery toward the center: the red zone, red-white zone, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":18557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scientific-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drabdollahifard.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drabdollahifard.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drabdollahifard.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drabdollahifard.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drabdollahifard.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drabdollahifard.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18559,"href":"https:\/\/drabdollahifard.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18556\/revisions\/18559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drabdollahifard.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drabdollahifard.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drabdollahifard.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drabdollahifard.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}