Osteoarthrosis of the knee and physical load from occupation.

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  • E Vingård
چکیده

The knee is a weight bearing joint with importance in gait, stance, bending, stooping, and squatting. It is rather unstable and dependent on support from ligaments and strong muscles. There are two joints in the knee, the femorotibial and the femoropatellar. On both inner and outer side of the joint there are strong ligaments and in the centrum of the femorotibial joint are the cruciate ligaments that give stability and assist in the normal mechanical function of the knee. The menisci are curved, fibrocartilaginous structures that lie between the femoral condyles and the tibial plateau. The knee joint is stabilised and powerfully motored by muscles that cross the joint from origin above the hip joint and from the shaft of the femur to insert on bony structures below the knee joint. Around the joint there is a synovial capsule and the joint is protected by several bursae.' All these structures are easily hurt in trauma and overuse, and knee pain needing conservative treatment or surgery is rather common.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Annals of the rheumatic diseases

دوره 55 9  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1996