Meniscus Injuries: A Case Study

Kinesiology, often known as human kinetics, is the study of principles of anatomy, physiology, and mechanics in relation to human movements. This field of study is a regulated health profession that focuses on physical activity. These principles have drawn me into this field of study and have urged me to specialize in becoming a physical therapist’s assistant as a choice of profession.

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

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One of the most common injuries that can occur in a person’s life is an injury to the meniscus. The meniscus is a vital part of cartilage located between the bones of the knee. It helps with stability, mobility and also cushions the knee. There are several menisci within the knee and this along with the variety of motions and impacts that can occur to one’s knee are what cause the likelihood of injury to increase dramatically. The various types of tears require different kinds of rehabilitation. Some of these tears may require surgery. By understanding the injury and different types of treatment options, an injured person will have a better chance at a full recovery.

Treatments for ligament and meniscus injuries vary due to degree of the injury. The physician or specialist will have client stay off affected joint. As stated in Medical-Surgical Nursing on page 1075, NSAIDs will be recommended by physician along with ice therapy to the joint during the first 2 days of injury. After the knee has rested the client may slowly become active, however, client needs not to overwork the ligament or meniscus as it may cause more injury, increasing the healing time. If the client is needing surgical repair, the client with a torn meniscus will have to undergo a procedure to have damaged cartilage removed or repair the injured the ligaments. After

This scientific review is about women in professional sports knee injuries vs men’s knee injuries. Many scientists have researched this topic and have found data that correlates with other

I would like to propose a study that will examine if core strengthening paired with a quadriceps and hip-strengthening program further helps to improve function in patients with PFPS. Core strengthening has shown improvements in knee kinematics during ACL rehabilitation7 and should further be investigated in order to see if it will also have this affect on patients with PFPS in order to help reduce knee

The majority of ACL injuries happen during athletic tasks with no external contact to the knee joint. This non-contact nature proves that these injuries are caused by abnormal movement which can possibly be changed through training. Understanding the pattern of movement for non-contact ACL injuries provides beneficial information for how to develop different strategies to train. A great effort has been made to identify risk factors for non-contact ACL injury by using different practices over the past 2 decades. An important strategy in particular used to identify movement characteristics during injuries is the analysis of video records of ACL injury cases. Cochrane et al analyzed video records of 34 ACL injury cases in Australian football (2007).

An ACL is the Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) which is a ligament in the knee and is an essential internal stabilizer of the knee joint and helps in restraining hyperextension. It is injured when it’s when the biomechanics of this ligaments limits are exceeded or over stretched, often with a hyperextended mechanic. It was thought that this occurred in sports where there was a lot of contact and when other structures were often involved. In the present day, the ACL injury seems to be more of a contactless injury such as; a dismount from a layup in basketball. Both forms of the injury occur more frequently in athletes than in the general population. They are also more established in alpine skiing, Association football, American football, Australian Rules football, basketball, rugby, professional wrestling, martial arts, and artistic gymnastics. It is also three times more likely to happen in males then it is in male athletes. The consequences of the injury are down to how much of the knee stability is affected and if injuries to other structures are badly damaged. This all varies from each and

Although the ankle joint has significantly smaller surface area than the hip or knee, it withstands five times the body weight during stance in walking and up to 13 times the body weight during running (10,11, 17-19). Despite the increased weight-bearing force, the tibiotalar joint is more resistant to development of primary osteoarthritis (OA). However, it is more susceptible to post-traumatic arthritis based on many variables including gender, cartilage thickness, mechanical and metabolic factors. (10,11,19,20).

The research primarily focused on investigating Post Traumatic Osteoarthritis (PTOA), a severely debilitating condition occurring after an early childhood or young adult injury to the knee. PTOA typically mirrors the effects of regular Osteoarthritis (OA). While OA demonstrates an exponentially increasing probability of occurring as one ages, PTOA exhibits a much higher probability of developing at an early age, sometimes showing chances of development at age 25 mirroring those of a regular individual’s chances of developing OA at 70. Our research group utilized multiple perspectives to collect data for analysis, including the destabilization of the medial meniscus (DMM) in mice and the application

The muscle strength of the knee extension and flexion was measured by isokinetic dynamometer (Biodex) in 60 degrees of knee flexion at pre-operative, post-operative month 6, month 9, and month 12. We examined the muscle strength at the operative side as the ratio against the normal side. We evaluated the factors to have an influence on the muscular recovery at month 12 after surgery by Logistic regression

Most people will never understand the many complexities of the world. The same can be said about the human body and the different structures that work together to produce movement. Some people who desire to be in highly competitive sporting environments, will attest to the excruciatingly painful, life-altering moment when they were engaged in play and heard the quintessential “pop” sound from their knee and they are immediately falling to the floor unable to move that knee. This is usually followed by a diagnosis of an anterior cruciate ligament tear and within a few weeks, surgical methods must be taken if the athlete wishes to return to their sport at the same high level. This paper will seek to properly define what the role of the anterior cruciate ligament (more commonly called the ACL) is, shed light on the procedures necessary for an athlete to return to play, and analyze data found through research to determine the likelihood of re-injury and, therefore, the effectiveness of ACL surgery.

Introduction: Acute meniscal tears may interfere with the normal biomechanics and functions of the knee joint during motion and thus, may lead to severe pain accompanied by mechanical symptoms throughout daily living activities as well as impairment of the quality of life.

As a common procedure, arthroscopic meniscectomy is used to treat patients who have suffered from a meniscal tear. By doing so, the removal of torn meniscal fragments and trimming the meniscus back to a stable rim is completed in attempt to relieve pain and further knee complications (Sihvonen et al., 2013). In this case, it was tested if this procedure is in fact effective and beneficial in treating this specific injury.