Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

DOI: 06/22/2014. The patient is a 37-year-old male laborer who sustained injury while pushing a pallet jack off a truck and took a step over the truck to the ground doing the splits. The patient is subsequently diagnosed with status post left tibia puncture fracture repair with instrumentation, left knee, left ankle, lumbar sprain/strain. Based on the progress report by Dr. McSweeney dated 01/07/16, the patient had a left ankle scope on 12/17/15 and has just started PT. He reports left ankle…

A sprained ankle happens when you completely or partially tear a ligament due to a sudden stretching. After spraining, swelling immediately occurs and the pain is most severe at time of injury. Definitions Ligament: a short band of tough, flexible, fibrous connective tissue that connects two bones or cartilages or holds together a joint. Swelling: an abnormal enlargement of a part of the body, typically as a result of an accumulation of fluid. Severe: very great , or intense. Tripping Rolling…

Introduction. Lateral epicondylitis is also known as ‘Tennis Elbow’ that is commonly occurring on dominant arm. This disease, lateral epicondylitis is the term that describes the inflammation or the irritation to the tendon of lateral epicondyle of the humerus. It is normally occurred on the tendons that connect the extensor muscle of the wrist and fingers. Often, the inflammations happen to be on the attachment site of the tendon on lateral epicondyle. Also it is the common site of injuries,…

A twenty-one-year old ballerina stumbles during one of her shows and tears her Anterior Cruciate Ligament and requires hamstring graft surgery. As an aspiring Doctor of Physical Therapy, it is my job to make special interventions in patient's lives for injuries like this one, providing access to diagnosis, intervention plans, and prevention plans. Physical Therapist help patients get back to full strength or near full strength. The therapy does not only help patients get back to full strength…

Knee Osteoarthritis can occur in any age group, but a higher number of cases occur in people over 45 years of age and incidence increases with age. The reason this is greater in people over the age of 45 is because knee osteoarthritis is a degenerative joint disease due to wear and tear on the joints and does not fall into the same classification as rheumatoid arthritis (Lesher, 2011, p.173). Consequently, this disease is causing a degenerative in the joint this can cause excruciating pain for…

2015). What even is a meniscus? Menisci are crescent-shaped portions of fibrocartilage located in the knees and can actually be found in other joints, but injury primarily takes place in the knees. These injuries are also closely associated with ligament sprains (Lewis, S. M., 2011). Alone, this type of damage does not usually cause significant edema or swelling due to the fact that most of…

What is an Arthroscopy? One year ago, I asked myself that question, as I was getting ready to have knee surgery. Furthermore, after research I found that an Arthroscopy is a procedure that allows doctors to look at your cartilage, joints, or other tissues through a small incision using a viewing tool called a scope. The scope has a light source and a video camera attached to it. Furthermore, a procedure like this can happen in many places, but the most common are done on a knee, shoulder, or…

DOI: 2/18/2014. The patient is a 54-year-old male carpenter who sustained a work-related injury to his left knee when he slipped and fell. The patient is status post left knee arthroscopy, partial lateral meniscectomy, chondroplasty of the patella and lateral tibial plateau on 04/04/14 and a left knee arthroscopy, partial medial meniscectomy, partial lateral meniscectomy, removal of loose body and chondroplasty of medial femoral condyle and lateral tibial plateau on 08/28/2015. Per medical…

volleyball, and football. The second key point is about where a sprain can form and how a sprain can come about in the ankle. Most ankle sprains come about when there is damage to the anterior talofibular, the calcaneofibular, and the posterior talofibular; these are lateral ligament structures. The damage to the three ligaments is caused when a supinated and inverted foot gets a stress. Some ways stress can occur is from stepping on the foot of another athlete and also landing from jumps.…

and it would clug like a car shifting. I fell onto the ground and my knee had a slight burn to it, it was like hot water filling inside my knee. After an evaluation from the trainers it was clear that I had torn both my Anterior Cruitiate Ligament and my medial collateral ligament. It left my knee as unstable as two pencils stacked on top of each other. And so, it was time for knee surgery. The injury occur o a warm 20th of September and my surgery was on a much colder October 22nd. As I…