Wound·ed Knee (wo͞on′dĭd) A creek of southwest South Dakota. Some 300 Lakota were massacred here by US troops on December 29, 1890. In 1973 a standoff between Indian activists and US law officers resulted in deaths on both sides. ...
It was bitterly cold that early April morning in 1973. We had taken off from Rapid City well before dawn. Our original plan was to land in Hot Springs, remove the rear doors from the three big Cherokee aircraft we were flying, and then head for Wounded Knee at tree-top level, ready t...
newly identified anterolateral ligament (ALL) on the outside of the knee, along with the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), which runs through the knee from the shin to the back of the thigh.Damage to the ACL is the commonest type of knee injury, affecting up to 50,000 Britons a ...
Byline: ALICE SMELLIEASURGEON has developed a new way to repair injured knees, thanks to the discovery of a part of the joint no one knew existed until last autumn.The two-in-one operation involves fixing the newly identified anterolateral ligament (ALL) on the outside of the knee, ...