Dorsiflexion, palmar flexion, ulnar translocation, and dorsal carpal subluxation are four, not uncommon, post-traumatic carpal ligamentous instabilities. Palmar carpal subluxation is a theoretical possibility. Dorsiflexion and palmar flexion instabilities are named for the way the distal lunate articular surface dorsally and palmarly, respectively. Ulnar translocation, and dorsal and ventral ca...

Objectives: Ulnar Collateral Ligament (UCL) tears are common in baseball players. When non-operative management fails; reconstruction or repair may be necessary to restore physical function. There is no clear consensus regarding the indications for surgery based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) tear characteristics, selecting over reconstruction. The purpose of this study was define UCL MRI ...

INTRODUCTION This study investigated the sport-related ankle injuries attending an accident and emergency (A&E) department during a 1-year period. METHODS A total of 1715 sports injuries cases attending an A&E department from 1 January 2005 to 31 December 2005 were prospectively recorded. Details of each classified case were recorded in a computerised record system by the triage nurse. At the...

To determine the frequency of advanced clinical and radiological features of AS with reference to gender, onset of symptoms and disease duration. Fifty-seven patients diagnosed with AS were included in this study. Functional evaluation of the musculoskeletal system detected advanced clinical features: rubber-ball phenomenon, flattening of the chest anterior wall, diastasis of rectus abdominis m...

Objectives: To describe outcomes of posterior capsular release to treat knee extension deficits after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction in athletes. Methods: A retrospective review was performed between January 2014 and December 2019 for patients undergoing arthroscopic loss following ACL reconstruction. Patients were indicated the procedure if they had greater than 10° at least t...

BACKGROUND The evaluation of acute knee pain often includes radiography of the knee. OBJECTIVE To synthesize the literature to determine the role of radiologic procedures in evaluating common causes of acute knee pain: fractures, meniscal or ligamentous injuries, osteoarthritis, and pseudogout. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE search from 1966 to October 2002. STUDY SELECTION We included all publishe...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE There are limited data correlating MR imaging and anatomic findings of ligamentous injury in cervical spine trauma. This study compares acute MR imaging with surgical observations of disk/ligamentous injury after blunt cervical trauma. MATERIALS AND METHODS Consecutive patients with acute cervical spine trauma who underwent preoperative MR imaging and surgery from 1998 ...

If the knee becomes unstable after a ligamentous injury, permanent problems may result, especially if the patient is an athlete with high functional demand. If the history indicates that there is possibly instability, an examination to detect the exact location and degree of this is performed. It is important to make this supplementary examination only when symptoms and signs found in the routi...

BACKGROUND We hypothesized that using a cadaveric Lisfranc ligamentous injury model, abduction stress would provoke greater post-injury motion than axial weightbearing between the medial cuneiform (MC1) and the base of the second metatarsal (MT2). Second, we hypothesized that both a tensioned suture-button device and a rigid screw fixation method could maintain a reduction and similarly restrai...