Patella Essays

Robert Bayley Osgood was a professor of orthopedic surgery and chief of staff of the orthopedic department in a Boston hospital. He published texts on orthopedic surgery and was an author of a 1909 monograph on diseases in the bones. In 1903 he spoke on the painful lesions of the tibial tuberosity in children and adolescents. Carl Schlatter, a Swiss surgeon was a professor of surgery at Zurich. Schlatter is known for performing the first successful total gastrectomy in 1897. He also published in

Tibial Plateau Fracture Treated With Open Reduction A tibial plateau fracture is a break in the bone that forms the bottom of your knee joint (tibia or shinbone). The lower end of your thighbone (femur) forms the upper surface of your knee joint. The top of the tibia has a flat, smooth surface (tibial plateau). This part of your shinbone is made up of softer bone than the shaft of your shinbone. If a strong force drives your femur down into your tibial plateau, it can cause the tibial plateau to

Osgood-Schlatter Disease can impact your life dramatically. It can take shots on your body for so long until you can’t take it anymore. Osgood-Schlatter Disease is a common cause of knee pain in growing adolescents. It is an inflammation of the area just below the knee where the tendon from the kneecap (patellar tendon) attaches to the shinbone (tibia). It occurs when your bones, tendons, muscles are growing rapidly than what they should. It’s a common disease for athletes. It all started when I

Age: 19 Gender: Male Level of play: NCAA Division 2 Past injuries: pulled hamstring, broken fibula (football), ankle sprains on both ankles multiple times. Sport: currently competes in collegiate track. High school sports: Basketball, Football, and Track and field Injury: pulled part of the proximal hamstring. Athlete was doing intense short sprints, when suddenly he felt his hamstring give out and was forced to stop. Athlete said his hamstring felt tight prior to engaging in sprints, but he

mechanical function, and patellar alignment at the patella-femoral joint. Some have suggested that the mechanical advantage of the Quadriceps is maximized because of increased leverage by the patella via a medial shift as it returns to the trochlear grove of the femur. (Naoko Aminaka (2005) 13 The patella functions to increase the mechanical advantage of the quadriceps mechanism. Ficat and Hunger ford 14 reports that throughout the range of motion the patella increases effective extension force by as much

quicker than the healing process for soft tissue to bone. The pros of having a patella bone graft is that the 1/3 of the tendon when remove is consider to be a lot stronger than the hamstring or LARS graft. Also the patella tendon resembles the best size and length of the actual torn ACL. The patella tendon too is also very easy for the surgeons to go in and get to as compared to the hamstring muscle. Also with the patella tendon it is connected to bone and therefore has a very easy bone-to-bone healing

tibia and fibula occurs in the 6th week. The knee joint embryologically arises from blastemal cells with the formation of the patella, cruciate ligaments and meniscus in the 7th week.22 Knee joint is formed by two condylar joints between the femoral condyles (medial and lateral both) and the corresponding tibial condyles. Knee joint also has a gliding joint between the patella and the corresponding femur articular surface. The fibula is not involved directly in forming the articular surface of the

stretching of the hamstrings, quadrcipes, and iliotibial band can alleviate pain that is present in the patella. When stretching and icing of the knee seem to have no effect in declining pain, there are other treatment measurements that are available.

The most vital skeletal structure for most of the volleyball players is the Kneecap. The kneecap/kneepan, also known in Anatomy and Physiology as the Patella, is a small, freestanding, triangular shaped bone that rests between the trochlear groove in front of the Femur (thighbone) and Tibia (shinbone). This moveable bone in front of the knee is referred to as the largest sesamoid bone which is embedded within the tendons that attach muscles to certain joints and its back is lined with the thickest

Anatomically, the patella is of a disproportionate oval-shaped sesamoid bone which articulates with the femoral sulcus. Its proximal attachment is the quadriceps tendon which envelopes the structure and distally at the apex, the patellar tendon attaches. Both the tendons are functional as to stabilise the patella bone in the knee joint during movements or even when the joint is static. Also, the patellar retinacula are attached to both the medial and lateral sides of the patella. When the tendon is

Balance is important for netball players as they have single leg reaching activities when passing ball and changing their position time to time within a narrowed base. They need good balance to shoot the ball successfully and to maintain a good defensive stance posture. Lavipour D, 2011 and Sinaki M et al, 2004 have reported that poor balance leads to falls and injures. There are two divisions in loco-motor balance. They are static loco-motor balance and dynamic loco-motor balance. Dynamic loco-motor

The planar motion of the two adjacent body segments can be described by the concept of the instant center of motion. As one body segment rotates about the other, at any instant, there is a point that does not move. This point has zero velocity and acts as a center of rotation. This technique yields a description of motion at one point only and is not applicable if motion of 15 degree or greater exists in other planes. When the instantaneous center of rotation is at the contact point between femur

Derek fox the story of poppy Here's the story of the most insane cat. The cat's name is poplatiel, aka poppy. She's named after the bone behind the patella. Patella is a name of one of my cats aka mrs.kitty. And the name of the scaredy cat tis tigres. My cat. Poppy was born in a barn at my sister's boyfriend's hoce. Her litter was her and her one sister. Poppy was the runt. My sister loved her as soon she laid eyes on her. My sister begged and begged to keep poppy. Mom finally said yes

anterior knee pain sustained during activity, and is a result of the patella tendon becoming overstressed and inflamed (Kettunen et al., 2002). A tendon is defined as a dense, fibrous tissue which is made up of collagenous fibres and attaches muscles to other body parts; usually bones. The patella tendon is located on the anterior aspect of the knee, and is a continuation of the quadriceps tendon and attaching on to the patella and the tibial tuberosity (Kuntzman and Tortora, 2010) and is the main

Annexe 1 : Heart murmur 1. An unusual sound coming from the heart that can be detected by a stethoscope. These noises are caused by an abnormal turbulence produced when blood flows across one of the heart (valves, cardiac chambers) and or vessels close to the heart Heart murmurs are classified by the intensity of the sound heard: Stage I (murmur is of low intensity and can hardly be heard) to Stage VI (murmur is extremely loud). Cardiac murmurs can be present at birth (congenital; often caused

The hip is a true ball and socket joint and the arrangement gives the hip the large amount of motion needed for daily activities like walking, squatting and stair climbing. The bones that form the hips are the femur or far bone and pelvis. The top of the femur shape like a ball called femoral head that fits into a round socket on the side of the pelvis. This socket is named as acetabulum. The femoral head is attached to the rest of the femur by a short section of a bone called femoral neck. A large

over-stretching or tearing of the anterior cruciate ligament ACL in the knee. A tear could be small, or it could be very large in the amount of tearing in the ACL. Three bones meet to form your knee joint, your femur, the shinbone or the tibia, and the patella. Your patella sits in front of the joint to provide some protection. There are four primary ligaments in your knee. Collateral ligaments are found in the side of your knee. The

The Patellofemoral and knee joints would be open, but she has small bone spurs projecting from the patella, going posteriorly towards the femur and superiorly from the tibia towards the femur. The patient is under rotated because the lateral condyle is not completely superimposed over the medial condyle of the femur. The medial condyle is the one that

A patellar tendon tear, also called a patellar tendon rupture, is a tear in the thick band of tissue that connects the kneecap (patella) to the shinbone (tibia). The condition can make it hard or impossible to straighten the leg. CAUSES This condition can be caused by: A blow to the front of the knee. Falling on your knee. A deep cut under the patella Landing on your foot with your knee bent after a high jump or fall. Activity-related wear and tear that weakens the tendon

tibiofemoral joint. It is a synovial hinge joint formed between three bones which are the femur, tibia and patella (Taylor, n.d.). There are two rounded, convex processes which are known as condyles on the distal end of the femur. The distal end of the femur meets two rounded, concave condyles at the proximal end of the tibia (Tyalor, n.d.). A thick, triangular bone which is known as patella lies anterior surface between the femur and tibia. In each knee joint, there is two pieces of C-shaped cartilage