Hadidi O, et al. BMJ Case Rep 2017. doi:10.1136/bcr-2017-222914 Description A 24-year-old male presented with left knee pain and swelling after a fall six weeks earlier playing football. Clinical examination revealed an antalgic gait and a moderate left knee effusion with tenderness along the medial joint line. Anterior drawer and Lachman tests were positive, suggesting an anterior cruciate lig...

Background: Meniscal root tears cause biomechanical changes comparable to a total meniscectomy. The resultant compromise in hoop stress, leads decreased tibiofemoral contact area and increased pressure. This will lead early arthritis. meniscus tear causes more detrimental people with varus alignment of the lower limb. increases chances progression arthritis, causing joint pain functional limita...

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and clinical examination are tools commonly used in the diagnosis of meniscus tears. It has been suggested routine MRI before therapeutic arthroscopy for clinically diagnosed meniscus tears will reduce the number and cost of unnecessary invasive procedures. We designed a systematic review of prospective cohort studies comparing MRI and clinical examination to ar...

Meniscal cartilage tears are common and predispose to osteoarthritis (OA). Most occur in the avascular portion of the meniscus where current repair techniques usually fail. We described previously the use of undifferentiated autologous mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) seeded onto a collagen scaffold (MSC/collagen-scaffold) to integrate meniscal tissues in vitro. Our objective was to translate this...

The goal of the present study was to evaluate the diagnostic value of a joint distractor in arthroscopy in small-breed dogs. Sixty stifle joints, which were collected from thirty cadavers, were used in this study. To simulate different injuries, no medial meniscal tear, a full-thickness vertical longitudinal tear, a partial-thickness vertical longitudinal tear, full- and partial-thickness verti...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Several randomized controlled trials have not shown any added benefit of arthroscopy over placebo surgery or physiotherapy in middle-aged patients with knee symptoms without trauma. We studied the characteristics of the knee arthroscopies performed in southern Sweden. PATIENTS AND METHODS From the orthopedic surgical records from 2007-2009 in the Skåne region of Sweden ...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this case report is to describe the chiropractic management of a patient who had postoperative reconstructive surgery for an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear. CLINICAL FEATURES A 25-year-old man experienced a rupture of his left ACL, as well as a bucket-handle tear of the medial meniscus and full-thickness tear within the posterior horn of the lateral meniscus, f...