Knee

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called the medial and lateral collateral ligaments stabilize the knee from side to side The anterior cruciate ligament ACL is one of a pair of ligaments in the center of the knee joint that form a cross and this is where the name cruciate comes from There is both an anterior cruciate ligament ACL and a posterior

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You can see the various tendons that run into the knee area Knee tendonitis can affect any of these tendons but is most common in the patellar tendon group located at the front of the knee Who s at Risk As the human body ages the tendons become brittle and lose their elasticity This puts older people at much higher risk of developing knee tendonitis In fact knee tendonitis

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The location of knee pain can help identify the problem Pain on the front of the knee can be due to bursitis arthritis or softening of the patella cartilage as in chondromalacia patella

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extend the knee joint In the back of the thigh the hamstring muscles flex the knee The knee also rotates slightly under guidance of specific muscles of the thigh The knee functions to allow movement of the leg and is critical to normal walking The knee flexes normally to a maximum of 135 degrees and extends to 0 degrees The bursae or

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The knee is a complex joint made up of the distal end of the femur femoral condyles and the proximal end of the tibia tibial plateau A number of ligaments run between the femur and the

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The ligaments which attach the upper leg bone femur to the large lower leg bone tibia create a hinge joint called the knee The anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments are 2 short

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knee normal xray JPG 10 Sep 2000 20 29 5k knee osteoarthritis > 10 Sep 2000 20 29 6k knee pain photo 1 jpg 10 Sep 2000 20 29 38k knee pain photo 2 jpg 10 Sep 2000 20 29 16k

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holds a hard plastic spacer that will become the new shock absorber between the smooth metal coverings Your surgeon may also replace the back of the kneecap with a new plastic surface Near the end of your surgery your surgeon will attach the new metal and plastic coverings to the ends of the bones and the back of the kneecap This can be done with bone cement where

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This post is written by Dr Gabe Mirkin M D and was originally published on his blog Fitness and Health E Zine under the title Runner s Knee The most common long term running injury is runners knee pain behind the knee cap during running You probably have runner s knee if your knee cap hurts when you walk or run particularly

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Image by permission copyright of Medical Multimedia Group 1998 MMG

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knee model 1 JPG 10 Sep 2000 20 30 26k knee model meniscus jpg 10 Sep 2000 20 30 25k knee normal photo fr > 26 Sep 2000 20 50 16k knee normal photo fr > 26 Sep 2000 20 50 14k

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A bursa is a lubricated pocket that exists to facilitate movement In the knee there are several bursae plural of bursa the main ones being

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Here is an image of the front of the right knee opened from top to bottom and with the kneecap patella flipped over showing its undersurface The image is illustrative rather than fully accurate as the knee really needs to be bent to allow one to look straight into the cavity of the knee joint like this

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Knee injury

Dec 30th 2007 3 30 pm Northstar Lake Tahoe 4 hours 5 doctors 47 stitches 8500 feet 2 beers 1 granite rock This happened as I was riding with Willie through the trees under the Rendevous lift line I wasn t moving fast and don t really remember why I fell I put my knee down on a piece of granite which was conceiled under a thin layer of snow I ended up getting lucky in that I don t have any torn ligaments or tendons I didn t twist the knee or fracture any bones I m all sewed up and in a brace to keep my leg straight and should have no permanent damage other than maybe a patch of numbness On the plus side they gave me 30 Percocet

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Bruised Knee

This is what my knee looked like about a week after my ACL surgery Yummy indeed

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scoi hip main jpg 11 Jan 2002 15 17 12k scoi hip title jpg 11 Jan 2002 15 17 3k scoi knee main jpg 11 Jan 2002 15 17 18k scoi knee title jpg 11 Jan 2002 15 17 3k

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CRANIAL CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RUPTURE General Information A ligament consists of tough fibrous tissue connecting 2 bones normal knee In the knee rupture of the cranial cruciate ligament allows the femur thigh bone to slide back and forth over the tibia shin bone as the knee has lost its stability This

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