A new study co-authored by OccMD Chief Medical Officer Melissa D. Tonn, M.D. challenges the reliability of MRI reports in diagnosing knee injuries. The study found that orthopedic surgeons could identify the injured knee correctly from MRI reports in only 61% of cases.  Identifying the more symptomatic knee in adults based on MRI is unreliable and has limited accuracy, with or without information about demographics and mechanism of injury.  When there is any concern regarding extent of injury to a knee in a medico-legal setting such as workers' compensation, consideration should be given to obtaining a comparison MRI of the un-injured, asymptomatic knee to improve diagnosis. Click here to read the study: The Archives of Bone and Joint Surgery