As CrossFit becomes more popular, we are finding a larger number of patients that present to us with injuries that they sustained while doing CrossFit activities. This is particularly true in the young and middle-aged adult population, whereby a lot of stress in the knee can cause cartilage damage, which […]
Knee injuries are very common in football. They can include both noncontact and contact injuries. Unfortunately, there is a very high risk for significant knee injuries, such as an ACL tear, due to the twisting, turning, planting, and other mechanisms that places the knee at risk when playing […]
Pain behind the knee with extension is not that common. Most posterior knee pain is present with deep knee flexion or kneeling. Therefore, it is important to understand the region of the pain to help delineate what the source of the pain may be coming from.
There are many different graft choices for ACL reconstructions, and it is important to recognize the differences among all of them. First, there is a difference between using one’s own tissues, an autograft, and using a cadaver’s tissues, called an allograft. It is well recognized in the peer reviewed literature that […]
There are many cause of pain under the kneecap and on the front part of the knee. In the past, these pain generators were generically-called either “patellofemoral chondromalacia” or “anterior knee pain.” In general, sports medicine specialists today prefer to have a diagnosis based on specific pathology. […]
Unfortunately, one of the most common injuries that occurs during skiing is a tear of the anterior cruciate ligament. The anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL, is an important ligament to prevent one’s knee from having problems with twisting, turning, or pivoting activities. One can tear their ACL during skiing by a fall, a twist […]
The posterior cruciate ligament, or PCL, is by far the largest ligament in the knee. It sits in the middle of the knee and helps to position the knee in a normal position. Because it is so big, it very rarely is torn on its own and usually is torn in a […]
A kneecap dislocation is a fairly common injury, and most often happens to athletes in the teenage years. It is also a fairly common skiing injury so we see them quite frequently in Vail.
The kneecap is a free-floating bone (which we call a sesamoid bone) located between one’s quadriceps tendon and the patellar tendon. It […]
The meniscus is the all-important shock absorber of the knee. An injury to the meniscus can make or break one’s knee-joint health over the long term. Therefore, obtaining a proper diagnosis of a meniscus tear is very important to being able to continue activities as one ages. There is a special type of […]
The medial collateral ligament, or MCL, is located on the inside of one’s knee. It is a very strong ligament that prevents one’s knee from swinging to the outside against any forces on the knee. MCL tears are quite frequent, especially in skiing, and occur more than twice as often as ACL […]
