“The knee joint is held together by two ligaments. The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and the posterior cruciate ligament (PCL). The medial collateral ligament (MCL) is located on the outside ...

UC Davis Health molecular exercise physiologist Keith Baar specializes in sports medicine. He studies the effects of exercise ...

If walking is becoming difficult and physio isn’t working, cutting-edge treatments could be the next step. But which ones are ...

Most everyone has heard of an anterior cruciate ligament injury ... injury for the knee as it eliminates rotatory and straight plane posterior stability of the joint. The PCL injury connects ...

Julia Iafrate tore her ACL at 18, which led her to become a doctor. Hormones can make women more prone to ACL injury.

Then you move on to more specific ligament testing if you are suspecting a knee ligament injury ... mean the translation (movement at the joint) doesn’t happen so much because of the size ...

Studies suggest collagen supplementation may help improve conditions such as osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, sarcopenia, ...

Objective: To identify preoperative predictive factors for knee function two years after reconstructive surgery of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL ... 32 Static knee joint laxity defined as the ...

Behind-the-knee pain could be due to muscle strain or arthritis—or something far more serious. Orthopedic experts say these ...

biomechanical and clinical data has demonstrated the utility of quadriceps tendon autograft in arthroscopic knee ligament reconstruction. The quadriceps tendon autograft provides a robust volume of ...