26 Achilles and patella tendon pain is very common, but the precise nature of the complaint is difficult to diagnose and treat. The new imaging modality of ultrasound tissue characterisation (UTC) produces high resolution scans of the tendon, providing an indepth analysis of the health of the tendon tissue. In the future this technology will become indispensable for preventing tendon overload, ...

conclusions the use of an achilles tendon allograft provides excellent results in complex distal triceps tendon ruptures. we report the use of a new technique to anchor a distal achilles allograft. introduction the distal triceps tendon rupture is an uncommon injury. the acute treatment is well-defined, but when a delayed diagnosis is made or when a tendon retraction is present the alternatives...

Tendon, the crucial element of the musculoskeletal system, when damaged, never restores the biological and biomechanical properties completely. Recently, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine have enabled the differentiation of postnatal somatic stem cells or mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) to different cell lineages and tissues including tendon. In addition, the MSCs, mainly bone marrow d...

INTRODUCTION Tendons establish specific connections between muscles and the skeleton by transferring contraction forces from skeletal muscle to bone thereby allowing body movement. Tendon physiology and pathology are heavily dependent on mechanical stimuli. Tendon injuries clinically represent a serious and still unresolved problem since damaged tendon tissues heal very slowly and no surgical t...

AIMS The objective of the study was to investigate the value of acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) and its application in Achilles tendon elasticity of healthy volunteers. METHODS Bilateral Achilles tendons of 56 healthy individuals were included in the study. The subjects were divided into four age groups. Shear wave velocities (SWVs) of each tendon in the states of relaxation and tensi...

Healing of rotator cuff (RC) injuries with current suture or augmented scaffold techniques fails to regenerate the enthesis and instead forms a weaker fibrovascular scar that is prone to subsequent failure. Regeneration of the enthesis is the key to improving clinical outcomes for RC injuries. We hypothesized that the utilization of our tissue-engineered tendon to repair either an acute or a ch...

To our knowledge, no report has been published of a flexor tendon rupture as a result of a closed phalangeal fracture.A 58-year-old woman with multiple medical comorbidities presented with a closed, apex volar fracture of her long finger proximal phalynx with clinically intact flexor digitorum profundus and superficialis tendons in zone 2 of the flexor tendon sheath. After 5 weeks of nonoperati...

Tendons are composed of cells, blood vessels and extracellular matrix, intricately woven together to form a vital musculoskeletal connective tissue. They act as a mechanical buffer for transmitting forces generated in muscles to bones, thus enabling movement. There is a growing need for functional imaging of tendon, for example to provide noninvasive biochemical and biomechanical insight into i...