Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: OA: Osteoarthritis; TKA: Total Knee Arthroplasty; KOA: Knee Osteoarthritis; WOMAC: Western Ontario Master Universities; KOOS: Knee Injury Osteoarthritis Outcome Score; KSS: Knee Society Score; OKS: Oxford Knee Score; VAS: Visual Analogue Scale; CPM: Continuous Passive Motion; NMES: Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation; ROM: Range of M...

We retrospectively reviewed the hospital records of 68 patients who had been referred with an injury to the posterolateral corner of the knee to a specialist knee surgeon between 2005 and 2009. These injuries were diagnosed based on a combination of clinical testing and imaging and arthroscopy when available. In all, 51 patients (75%) presented within 24 hours of their injury with a mean presen...

Dugan SA: Sports-related knee injuries in female athletes: What gives? Am J Phys Med Rehabil 2005;84:122–130. Knee injuries occur commonly in sports, limiting field and practice time and performance level. Although injury etiology relates primarily to sports specific activity, female athletes are at higher risk of knee injury than their male counterparts in jumping and cutting sports. Particula...

Joint injury is a potent risk factor for osteoarthritis, the most important musculoskeletal disease affecting humankind. Yet the population incidence of soft tissue knee injury is not well documented. Using health-care register data from Sweden, Peat and colleagues report that soft tissue knee injuries are common, peak in adolescence and early adulthood, have a second spike in women who are 35 ...

Introduction ; A functional biomechanics garment (FBG) may help to prevent injury by improved kinematics during motion such as single leg drop landing (SLDL). The purpose of this study was investigate the effects FBG on SLDL. Method Seventeen female university basketball players participated. Characteristics were designed based weight-loaded performance human movement. average values lower limb...

CONTEXT Injuries to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) occur because of excessive loading on the knee. ACL injury prevention programs can influence sagittal plane ACL loading factors and vertical ground reaction force (VGRF). OBJECTIVE To determine the influence of ACL injury prevention programs on sagittal plane knee biomechanics (anterior tibial shear force, knee flexion angle/moments) an...

iv CHAPTER 1: GENERAL INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER 2: REVIEW OF LITERATURE 1.1 Incidence and Prevalence of Knee Osteoarthritis following ACL Rupture 5 1.2 Functional Anatomy 1.2.1 The ACL 7 1.2.2 Articular Cartilage 9 1.3 Injury to the ACL 10 1.4 Gait Analysis 12 1.5 Neuromuscular Adaptations following ACL injury leading to Knee Osteoarthritis 1.5.1 Quadriceps Weakness 13 1.5.2 Frontal P...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of treadmill training on functional recovery by analyzing the ankle joint as well as the knee and hip joints with 2D video analysis during gait by rats with sciatic nerve injury. [Subjects and Methods] Twenty-four male Sprague-Dawley rats were used in this study. The sham group (SG) received only a sham operation without any sci...

Injury to the posterior cruciate ligament of the knee joint is believed to be uncommon except in association with severe general ligament rupture and dislocation of the knee joint. The isolated injury has been described in the literature, however, in particular by Abbott, Saunders, Bost and Anderson (1944), though no large series has been reported. This paper is based on seventeen cases seen fr...