Medial Collateral Knee Ligament And Phase II Rehab

Ulnar collateral ligament injury is a type of elbow injury that develops from repeated overhand throwing movements (overuse). This motion places a lot of stress on the two strong bands of tissue (ligaments) that hold your elbow joint in place. The ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) is a main ligament located on the inside of your elbow. Over time, repetitive overhand throwing can damage the UCL.

The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is one of the four main ligaments in the knee joint that connect it to the shin bone (tibia) and thigh bone (femur). It 's located deep within the joint, behind the kneecap (patella), above the shinbone, and below the thighbone. The ACL lies diagonally across the middle of the knee and plays a role in keeping the knee stable during movement. Partial tears of the ACL can occur, but are rare. Most ACL tears are either near-completes or complete tears. After experiencing an ACL tear, an athlete has a 15 times

The ulnar collateral ligament is a structure that keeps the humerus and the ulna in a normal relationship. The most common cause of an injury to the UCL is repetitive stress to the elbow. Most commonly it is cause by repetitive throwing. You will most likely see this injury happen in throwing sports, such as baseball. The injury can start to happen over time or the ligament can pop from too much force.

Sport injuries have come to the forefront with the worldwide coverage of all sports. Of these injuries, the most common is knee injuries. A large portion of knee injuries are Medial Collateral Ligament (MCL) stains and tears.

The most common symptom of this condition is pain that occurs during activity. Other symptoms include:

The subject is a 25 year-old, right-handed, MLB pitcher who has played baseball since Little League. He sustained an injury to his right arm while throwing an overhand curveball during the fifth inning of the first Major League game of the season. Upon my reaching the mound, the pitcher was favoring the affected arm and in obvious pain. I asked him where the pain was located and how bad it was. He pointed to his right medial elbow, near the medial epicondyle, and said the pain was moderate and he did not feel he could continue to pitch in the game. Next, I asked him if the pain came suddenly or gradually. He said it was a sudden pain and felt a “pop” or “snapping” sound. I then asked the athlete if he

An MCL Injury is a sprain or tear to the medial collateral ligament. The MCl is a band of tissues on the inside of the knee. When your MCL is injured it takes on average 6 weeks to heal. The initial treatment for most grade 1,2,or 3 MCL tears focuses on reducing the pain and inflammation in the knee while immobilizing the knee to keep it stabilized. People tend to put knee braces on to help with relief of pain of an mcl sprain.

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With an ever increasing number of people becoming involved with athletic activities, there is an increasing number of injuries occurring which can be devastating for the individual. Most of the injuries that affect athletes occur in one of four structures in the human body: bones, muscles, tendons, or ligaments. Because ligaments attach bone to bone and play a major part in providing stability for joints, the major stabilizing ligament in the knee, the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), assists in performing everyday actions of the human body including sitting, standing, walking, running, dancing, and participating in other sports. The injury that specifically affects this ligament is very serious and always

The Anterior Cruciate Ligament also known as the ACL is deemed the most commonly torn ligament in the knee and can result from both contact and noncontact injuries. Most Anterior Cruciate Ligament injuries result from an extreme force on the lateral side of the person’s knee causing a valgus force which pushes the knee inward (Kisner & Colby, 2012, pp. 802-803). This injury to the side of the knee can also cause a “Terrible Triad” injury which also injures both the medial meniscus and the medial collateral ligament (Kisner & Colby, 2012, p. 803). Our textbook further states that “the most common noncontact mechanism is a rotational mechanism in which the tibia is externally rotated on the planted foot….this mechanism can account for as many as 78% of all ACL injuries” (Kisner & Colby, 2012, p. 803). If the person does not seek medical help with this injury they are susceptible to also injuring the remaining support ligaments as well. Patients usually present with joint effusion; possibly 25 degrees of flexion, joint swelling if blood vessels are involved, limited ROM, stress pain and instability along with quads avoidance gait patterns (Kisner & Colby, 2011, p. 208)

Diagnosis: Results from the orthopedic exam indicated two torn ligaments. The medial collateral ligament (MCL), which originates at the medial femoral epicondyle and inserts at the periosteum of the proximal tibia, deep to the pes anserine and the ACL, which originates on the Lateral wall of the intercondylar notch at its posterior aspect and inserts at the anterior aspect of the tibial plateau between the tibial eminences. As well, a medial meniscal injury was considered

The Ulnar collateral ligament that will be discussed is the ligament in the inner part of the elbow that connects your Humerus to your Ulna, its purpose is to help support and stabilize the arm ( ). An Ulnar Collateral Ligament (UCL) tear occurs when that ligament that connects the Humerus to the Ulna is put under repetitive stress or trauma that causes the ligament to tear. Movements that can put stress on this ligament are actions such as repeatedly throwing a baseball or spiking a volleyball. These actions move the elbow in a way that does not work in the flex/extend motion that the hinge joint of the elbow works in. Because of this, Baseball and Volleyball are the most common sports where this injury occurs ( ).

When an ACL tears it can be one of the most painful injuries and experiences an athlete can have in their sports career and is one of the worst muscles to be torn. ACL injuries most often occur during sporting events that involve sudden stops, jumping, awkward landings, “out of control play”, and sharp cuts- such as basketball, soccer, football, tennis, downhill skiing, volleyball, lacrosse, and gymnastics. When an injury to the ACL occurs, most people hear or feel a popping sensation in the knee.”I landed with my left knee locked, only to hear something akin to the popping of a paper bag filled with air or the snapping of a large rubber band, a sound so weirdly powerful that I couldn’t believe it was coming from inside my body”, said Mike Swift in his article about ACL tears in the Hartford Courant newspaper, as he describes how it felt when he tore his ACL playing basketball. Along with the popping sensation the knee may also swell, and feel unstable and become too painful to bear weight on it. When an ACL tears it can bring an extreme amount of pain to the person. “Still, even after the swelling subsided, my knee didn’t feel right”, also said by Mike Swift in his article. When an ACL tears it can either be really painful right then and there or you won’t even feel pain at all. “I had felt the bones separate inside the joint in a way they never had before. But I wasn’t

The ACL is part of a cruciate ligament that lies inside the knee joint and attaches the front of the tibia with the back of the femur. It is made up of strong fibres (collagen) that act like the strands of a rope or cable and this enables the ligament to prevent knee hyperextension, limit excessive tibial rotation, resist excessive anterior translation of the tibia on the femur as well as varus and valgus forces. In the Northstar web page it is stated that, “The anterior cruciate ligament is one of the most important ligaments to

The knee joint consists of four ligaments, two intra-capsular which are the ACL and the PCL and two extra-capsular ligaments including the MCL and LCL. The ACL is an extremely strong stabiliser which prevents anterior displacement of the knee. The ACL is a ligament and therefore connects one bone to another, the femur with the tibia. The ACLs origin is from the anterior intercondylar eminence of the tibia (home,2017) and the fibres pass upwards, backward and laterally inserting into the lateral condyle of the femur.