Knee-jerk (patellar) L4 Quadriceps femoris Femoral Ankle-jerk (Achilles) S1 Gastrocnemius, soleus Tibial Point to remember With peripheral nerve damage or ventral horn injury of a certain body area, stretch reflexes are usually hypoactive or absent. Reflexes are absent in people with chronic diabet...
The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), located inside the knee joint, plays a vital role in limiting anterior tibia translation and controlling axial knee rotation and varus movement. Recent evidence suggests that ACL injury is one of the most frequent knee injuries [1], with an incidence of 68....
We hypothesized that (1) cells would remain viable when collected from 4 distinct sites of the knee that are considered arthroscopic byproducts during ACL reconstruction and (2) harvested cells would meet the ISCT criteria of MSCs. Methods Participants This was a prospective benchtop study with no...
The peri-tunnel bone loss mainly occurred within the initial 12 weeks after surgery, indicating that 12 weeks postsurgically is the critical time point affecting knee function restoration. However, the direct mechanical proof on graft bonding strength was not delineated as the failure sites of all ...
Lift one leg off the ground and bend the knee. Move your thigh as close as possible to your chest. You can use both hands interlocked together and wrapped around this leg to keep it in place (close to the chest). The lifted leg will be stretching in the gluteal region and upper hamst...
Successful anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstructions strive for a firm bone-ligament integration. With the aim to establish an enthesis-like construct, embroidered functionalized scaffolds were colonized with spheroids of osteogenically differenti