Objectives: Patellar maltracking is the main reason for pain and disability in patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS). Patellar taping can considerably reduce such pain and disability. This study compared the effectiveness of physiotherapy exercises and kinesio taping on the patellar position in women with PFPS (mean age 32.2±1.12 years) by using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Methods: ...

The purpose of this study was to compare a trochlear block recession to a rotating dome trochleoplasty, a novel technique for the correction of patellar luxation in small animals. Twenty-eight limbs were used from 14 feline cadavers. With the stifles in flexion and extension, computed tomography was utilized to compare width and depth of the trochlea, medial trochlear ridge height, trochlear ar...

The prevalences of displacement and deformity of the medial and lateral fabellae in dogs were investigated. This was a retrospective epidemiologic study. Radiographs of canine stifle joints (1022 limbs, 534 dogs) were obtained. The images were taken at the Nihon University Animal Medical Center and three private animal hospitals from January 2003 to July 2012. The position and morphology of the...

Patellar luxation is the result of progressive structural abnormalities in the soft and/or skeletal tissues of the dog’s pelvic limbs. There is an alteration of the patella-trochlear groove interaction with negative effects on the stifle stability and extensor mechanism integrity, on the trochlear articular cartilage nutrition and the adequate trochlear depth and length development and maintena...

background: a potential specific problem of patellar tendon graft in acl reconstruction is the possibility of graft-tunnel mismatch which could be more problematic with anatomic acl reconstruction where the femoral tunnel is placed low on the lateral wall of the lateral femoral condyle. the occasional occurrence of this mismatch raises the question that whether a correlation exists between pati...

BACKGROUND Anterior knee pain is one of the most common musculoskeletal complaints of young patients. We notice that some patients had normal femoral trochlear, medial and lateral patellar retinaculum, and special patellar morphology, which resulted in a series of symptoms in the flexion of the knee due to the impingement of the lateral articular surface of the patella with the femur. We firstl...

A patellar luxation and concomitant cranial cruciate ligament rupture is a common pathology in dogs. Diagnosis based on clinical evidence of stifle joint instability. However, diagnostic imaging required to assess the number skeletal deformities signs Surgical options include both soft tissue osseous techniques, although, most cases, combination multiple procedures necessary correct restore sta...