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Knee stability assessment on anterior cruciate ligament injury: clinical and biomechanical approaches
Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury is common in knee joint accounting for 40% of sports injury. ACL injury leads to knee instability, therefore, understanding knee stability assessments would be useful for diagnosis of ACL injury, comparison between operation treatments...

- this is a variant of the anterior drawer test, in which the examination is carried out w/ the knee in 15 deg of flexion, and external rotation (relaxes the IT band);
Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics

Patients with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries who undergo surgical reconstruction are required to have extensive postoperative rehabilitation. Traditional programs emphasize muscle strengthening, especially of the quadriceps musculature. Recent literature, however, has suggested that programs focusing on neuromuscular exercise may also improve knee function. Currently, there are no long-term, evidenced-based...

PURPOSE: To quantitatively assess bone marrow edema-like lesion (BMEL) and the overlying cartilage in osteoarthritis (OA) or anterior cruciate ligament (ACL)-injured knees using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and spectroscopic imaging (MRSI).
CONCLUSION: 3D MRSI and T(1rho) mapping provide tools to quantitatively evaluate BMEL in OA and knee injury. This may allow...

In the United States, approximately 50,000 knee surgeries are performed each year for repairing anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries (1). Tissue allografts frequently are used for ACL reconstruction, and septic arthritis is a rare complication of such procedures. This report describes four patients who acquired postsurgical septic arthritis probably associated...

Iowa Orthop J. 2003; 23: 29–35. A Amendola, MD,† M Menon, BA,* M Clatworthy, MD,* and PJ Fowler, MD
As demonstrated by this study, placement and orientation may vary to accommodate technique and fixation. Clinical outcomes measured were similar in both groups. (full text)