OBJECTIVE To demonstrate the response to a proprioceptive training model during a 1-week rehabilitation regime. The techniques were demonstrated on a college-aged female basketball player who had injured her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) several weeks earlier. The athlete was tested, trained, and then retested during her semester break. BACKGROUND The ACL injury has become a fairly common ...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to compare the morphologic change of the posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in chronic anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear before and after reconstruction. MATERIALS AND METHODS On the MRI image after ACL reconstruction, a base line (BL) was drawn between the femoral and tibial insertion sites of the PCL. Point A was e...

The medial collateral (MCL) and the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) of the rat's knee are frequently used in biomedical research and occasionally in ligament healing studies. The contralateral normal ligament serves as a control. In this study the presence of symmetry in the biomechanical properties of the MCL and the ACL was investigated. Bilateral femur-MCL-tibia and femur-ACL-tibia preparat...

Tear of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is the most common ligamentous injury of the knee. Reconstructing this ligament is often required to restore functional stability of the knee. Many graft options are available for ACL reconstruction, including different autograft and allograft tissues. Autografts include bone-patellar tendon-bone composites (PT), combined semitendinosus and gracilis ...

OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that increasing the hamstrings and quadriceps (H:Q) isokinetic strength ratio will, in the short term, improve the functional ability of an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) deficient knee. METHODS The isokinetic muscular characteristics at a speed of 60 degrees s-1 and 180 degrees s-1 of 46 recreational athletes with an arthroscopically confirmed ACL tear were...

A nterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury in the adolescent athlete is an increasingly common occurrence. Early sports specialization, travel teams coupled with improved physical examination skills, and the routine use of magnetic resonance imaging have all led to the more frequent occurrence and detection of an ACL injury. Thirty years ago, most tears of the ACL in children went undetected, at ...

BACKGROUND Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) graft failure and contralateral ACL tears are more frequent in children and adolescents than adults. The reasons for higher subsequent injury rates in this population are incompletely understood. METHODS We analyzed a continuous cohort of patients who were <18 years of age. Subjects underwent isolated, primary ACL reconstruction with autograft betwe...

UNLABELLED The aim of the study is to retrospectively review the patients admitted and treated in the "Alexandru Rădulescu" Orthopedics and Traumatology Clinic, Cluj-Napoca for an anterior cruciate ligament tear over a 2-year period and document the intra-articular lesions found at arthroscopy as well as the treatment used for these associated lesions. PATIENTS AND METHODS The case records of...

INTRODUCTION This study was conducted to analyze the reliability of clinical diagnosis in ACL tear injuries. MATERIAL AND METHODS All patients attending our clinic with knee pain from 2009 to 2013 underwent systematic and thorough clinical assessment. From one hundred and three patients with knee problems in 73 were arhroscopicaly diagnosed ACL tears. All these patients underwent therapeutic ...