From a fractured ankle to a thumb sliced on a bottle of bubbly, from broken arm bones to torn knee ligaments, all manner of injuries has interrupted Lindsey Vonn’s highly successful skiing career. There was even the time the American was helicoptered off a mountain after a body-battering ...
Cruciate ligaments are found inside your knee joint. They cross each other to form an 'X' with the ACL in front and the PCL in the back. The crucaite ligaments control the back and forth motion of your knee. To visualize properly, posterior meaning near the hind end of the knee in th...
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Tendons and ligaments soft tissues that surround muscles and bones. Ligaments are tissues that connect bones together. They prevent joints from moving in the wrong direction and maintain stability. Tendons connect our bones to our muscles and are responsible for muscle movement. Damage to these tissu...
Ankle Sprains Because the discus thrower spins several times before throwing the discus, ankle sprains are commonly experienced due to poor technique and placing the ankle in an abnormal position. Ligaments that make up the ankle joint are torn or stretched in an ankle sprain. Sometimes a popping...
A torn ACL prevents subluxation of the knee joint, and maintaining its integrity is of primary concern. Since ligaments connect bones, when a tear in the ligament occurs, stability is no longer there. A stable knee means a stable joint and scar tissue can then take the place of the tear....
You need time for your ankle to heal. In the first stages of recovery, choose mostly seated and reclined poses while your ankle's swelling goes down and the ligaments heal. Following the acute injury, be sure to keep weight off the affected leg and see a doctor. He might give you a ...
The ligaments reached their ultimate stress at −15% strain. The procedure of implantation was tested in vitro by two orthopedic surgeons (Figure 7A–H). The technique that was used is the same that the orthopedic surgeons chose, using the doubled semitendinosus/gracilis autograft. The bACLs ...
The two muscles that work in conjunction to form the lower leg (or calf) are the deeper soleus muscle and the more superficial (closer to the skin) gastrocnemius muscle. These muscles connect the heel to the back of the knee and act to plantar flex the ankle and extend the knee, which...
After an appropriate amount of healing time has been granted to address the signs of a torn ligament, the injured person is likely to undergo physical therapy aimed at restoring mobility and strengthening the affected ligaments. These ligaments will weaken during the recovery period, so physical the...