Nonoperative treatment of posterolateral knee injuries tends to yield poor results. In patients with chronic posterolateral knee injuries, failure to correct genu varus alignment will often result in failure of the posterolateral knee repair or reconstruction.
An avulsion of the posterior root attachement of the lateral meniscus or a radial tear close to the root attachment can lead to degenerative knee arthritis. The study hypothesized that in situ pull-out suture repair of lateral meniscus root avulsions and of complete radial tears 3 and 6 […]
Bentley G, Biant LC, Carrington RWJ, Akmal M, Goldberg A, Williams AM, Skinner JA, Pringle J. A prospective, randomised comparison of autologous chondrocyte implantation versus mosaicplasty for osteochondral defects in the knee. J Bone Joint Surg Br. 2003 Mar;85:223-30.
A source of confusion in sports medicine is the anatomy and functional biomechanics of the posterolateral corner of the knee. A large majority of this is the result of varying dissection techniques and different nomenclature for the same structures as reported during the past century.
Although posterolateral knee injuries16 are less common than injuries to the ACL or PCL and are infrequently found as isolated injuries,recently, injuries to the posterolateral knee structures have been more commonly diagnosed than they were in the recent past. It has also been shown that posterolateral knee injuries alter forces in knees after cruciate […]
Many prior studies have evaluated shoulder motion, yet no three-dimensional analysis comparing the combined clavicular, scapular, and humeral motion during arm elevation has been done. We aimed to describe and compare dynamic three-dimensional motion of the shoulder complex during raising and lowering the arm across three distinct elevation planes […]
This manuscript went into detail about the history of PCL braces, why PCL braces are needed, and what future research is necessary to improve on PCL bracing. Basically, we found that most current braces do not place sufficient force on the posterior aspect of the knee to reduce it back into anatomic position. PCL braces can […]
This study found that the pectineus and piriformis muscles are important for postoperative hip arthroscopy rehabilitation. Specific exercises were defined, which will give use during the early phases of rehabilitation, to improve the function of these muscles.
Detachment of the meniscal roots from their tibial posterior attachements can cause meniscal extrusion and joint space narrowing, and has been associated with knee arthritis. This study analyzes a series of cases in which the posterior horn meniscal roots were detached iatrogenically because of malpositioning of the transtibial PCL […]
Articular cartilage defects of the knee can be very debilitating, and diagnosis can be difficult because the symptoms are often nonspecific…
