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Clinically relevant anatomy and what anatomic reconstruction means
- Source :
- Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy. 23:2950-2959
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2015.
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Abstract
- Within the past 20 years, knee ligament injuries have been increasingly reported in the literature to be treated with anatomic reconstructions over soft tissue advancements or sling-type procedures to recreate the native anatomy and restore knee function. Historically, early clinician scientists published on the qualitative anatomy of the knee, which provided a foundation for the initial knee biomechanical studies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Similarly, the work of early sports medicine orthopaedic clinician scientists in the late twentieth century formed the basis for the quantitative anatomic and functional robotic biomechanical studies found currently in the sports medicine orthopaedic literature. The development of an anatomic reconstruction first requires an appreciation of the quantitative anatomy and function of each major stabilizing component of the knee. This paper provides an overview of the initial qualitative anatomic studies from which the initial knee ligament surgeries were based and expands to recent detailed quantitative studies of the major knee ligaments and the renewed recent focus on anatomic surgical reconstructions. Anatomic repairs and reconstructions of the anterior cruciate ligament, posterior cruciate ligament, medial collateral ligament and posterolateral corner attempt to restore knee function by rebuilding or restoring the native anatomy. The basis of anatomic reconstruction techniques is a detailed understanding of quantitative knee anatomy. Additionally, an appreciation of the function of each component is necessary to ensure surgical success. V.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Medial collateral ligament
Knee Joint
Sports medicine
business.industry
Anterior cruciate ligament
Soft tissue
Anatomy
musculoskeletal system
medicine.anatomical_structure
Knee ligament
Posterior cruciate ligament
Ligaments, Articular
Orthopedic surgery
medicine
Posterolateral corner
Humans
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Surgery
business
human activities
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14337347 and 09422056
- Volume :
- 23
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f863711a81d57bb077102c8a1b4b4219