Cruciate ligament

Return to soccer following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears are among the most common injuries of lower limb in soccer. The touchstone for treatment of ACL tear is surgical reconstruction, which may overcome functional instability of knee joint, thereby lowering the risk of subsequent damage to articular cartilage and menisci. However, there is lacking clear criteria when deciding with players aiming for return to competitive games after ACL…

Overcoming an ACL Tear It’s game time, the whistle blows and the game begins. The first half passes and it’s 1-0 for the home team, it’s been pretty uneventful. Thankfully, there haven’t been any injuries, and the game has been clean. Eventually the second half starts winding down, the score now tied 1-1. Then comes a moment the players for both teams will never forget. An attacking player for the home team is dribbling at an away defender, the defender plants her foot and tries to turn with…

The most common knee injury is an ACL sprain also known as Anterior Cruciate ligament. The ACL runs from the back of the femur to the front of the tibia preventing the tibia from moving forwards and to stabilize the structure of the knee. The ACL prevents excessive twisting, straightening and bending of the knee and once these movements are beyond what the ACL can handle, tearing of the ACL ligament occurs. A ligament is a very strong band of connective tissue, which attaches the bones together…

likely to tear their ACL. As many as 70% of ACL injuries are involved in little to no contact with the other player. Why is it that female athlete’s suffer from this injury more than male? The anterior cruciate ligament is located deep in the middle of the knee. It is one for four vital ligaments that helps provide stability, proper coordination, and prevent the tibia from moving too far forward in relation to the femur and control the amount of tibia rotates. How players easily injury…

classified as a ligament. A ligament is a short band of tough, flexible, fibrous connective tissue that connects two bones or cartilages or holds together a joint. While the ligaments do serve to hold two bones together they also serve to give strength and stability to the knee which by itself has very, very poor stability. In total there are four ligaments in the knee joint however because the patellar tendon connects two bone it can be classified as a ligament, raising the amount of ligaments…

causes Knee is that largest joint in the body. The knee is located at the juncture of three bones, the femur, the tibia and the patella. The femur (the upper leg bone) and the tibia (the shinbone) are connected by the anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments. The joint is cushioned by the meniscus, a tough cartilage material, during movement. The patella (or kneecap) is a small bone, encased in tendons, that glides up and down in the groove on the top of the femur when the knee is flexed and…

Muscle and Ligament tear Ligaments and muscles are tough fibrous bands of tissue that connect the bones to our joints. If they are twisted or put under excessive stress then they rupture and develop sprain and tears. The most common of muscle and ligament tear is the ankle sprain. Nearly 25,000 people suffer from some form of ankle sprain every day. Among sportspersons (especially those who play rugby, football or hockey), tearing in the Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) is common. Muscle tear…

Proprioception is often overlooked in the rehabilitation or rehab process. However, it is vitally important in order to restore normal function to an injured body part. Since proprioception is a person’s ability to coordinate movements and determine how much effort is needed in order to move something, it is critical to practice these types of movements in rehab before returning the patient to activities. Once an injury occurs, the body will protect itself and begin to shut down in certain…

Nagai, K., Hoshino, Y., Nishizawa, Y., Araki, D., Matsushita, T., Matsumoto, T., ... & Kuroda, R. (2015). Quantitative comparison of the pivot shift test results before and after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction by using the three-dimensional electromagnetic measurement system. Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy, 23(10), 2876-2881. Jaylen Dawson Lower Evaluation April 11, 2017 Article Review #2 When testing for anterolateral instability there are many tests that can be used…

There are many student athletes all over the United States that have torn their anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). Sports like football, basketball, wrestling, and soccer are constantly shifting left and right and jumping give making them a higher risk for a ACL injury or minor knee injury than an average young adult. After the knee injury these young athletes need to go through some kind of rehab to get back on the field and to their everyday life activities. During the time of rehab they will…