Joint injury is a potent risk factor for osteoarthritis, the most important musculoskeletal disease affecting humankind. Yet the population incidence of soft tissue knee injury is not well documented. Using health-care register data from Sweden, Peat and colleagues report that soft tissue knee injuries are common, peak in adolescence and early adulthood, have a second spike in women who are 35 ...

Introduction ; A functional biomechanics garment (FBG) may help to prevent injury by improved kinematics during motion such as single leg drop landing (SLDL). The purpose of this study was investigate the effects FBG on SLDL. Method Seventeen female university basketball players participated. Characteristics were designed based weight-loaded performance human movement. average values lower limb...

CONTEXT Injuries to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) occur because of excessive loading on the knee. ACL injury prevention programs can influence sagittal plane ACL loading factors and vertical ground reaction force (VGRF). OBJECTIVE To determine the influence of ACL injury prevention programs on sagittal plane knee biomechanics (anterior tibial shear force, knee flexion angle/moments) an...

iv CHAPTER 1: GENERAL INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER 2: REVIEW OF LITERATURE 1.1 Incidence and Prevalence of Knee Osteoarthritis following ACL Rupture 5 1.2 Functional Anatomy 1.2.1 The ACL 7 1.2.2 Articular Cartilage 9 1.3 Injury to the ACL 10 1.4 Gait Analysis 12 1.5 Neuromuscular Adaptations following ACL injury leading to Knee Osteoarthritis 1.5.1 Quadriceps Weakness 13 1.5.2 Frontal P...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of treadmill training on functional recovery by analyzing the ankle joint as well as the knee and hip joints with 2D video analysis during gait by rats with sciatic nerve injury. [Subjects and Methods] Twenty-four male Sprague-Dawley rats were used in this study. The sham group (SG) received only a sham operation without any sci...

Injury to the posterior cruciate ligament of the knee joint is believed to be uncommon except in association with severe general ligament rupture and dislocation of the knee joint. The isolated injury has been described in the literature, however, in particular by Abbott, Saunders, Bost and Anderson (1944), though no large series has been reported. This paper is based on seventeen cases seen fr...

Objective: To determine the risk factors of knee osteoarthritis in young patients. Methods: A total 100 patients with diagnosis arthritis were included as cases and a similar number who presented to orthopedic clinic for reasons other than taken controls. study questionnaire was designed gather information regarding patient’s age, gender, body mass index, physical activity, smoking history inju...

BACKGROUND Psychological perceptions are increasingly being recognized as important to recovery and rehabilitation post-surgery. This research longitudinally examined perceptions of the personal importance of exercise and fears of re-injury over a three-year period post anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction. Stability and change in psychological perceptions was examined, as well as th...

Rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is one of the most common injuries of the knee in the athletes and other group of patients who present to the knee clinics each year . Near to 250000 ACL ruptures occur in the Unites State each year. Almost 100000 ACL reconstructions are performed in the USA annually (1). This means that not all the patients with an ACL injury need operation. So, ...

Dislocations of the knee are relatively uncommon injuries. However, the incidence of this injury appears to be increasing. Knee dislocations are most often high velocity blunt injuries, with motor vehicle accidents being a frequent etiology. Other causes include falls from height, athletic injuries, farming and industrial accidents, and even low velocity mechanisms such as a misstep into a hole...