stasis, reiki can do some neat things but restoring grossly degenerated cartilage be it meniscal or disc ain't one of them.
flipside is a large portion of knee surgery is done with no clear long term benefit and often leads to a spiral of repeated surgeries.
no doubt tangles has been hitting the glucosamine/chondroitin products, using NSAID's (which seem to block articular cartilage healing unfortunately), looked at orthotics to improve lower limb mechanics. mobilising the knee and reiki etc etc will make the knees more comfortable until knee replacements are done (as late as possible especially for a young guy).
what was this thread about again?!?! he he