Key Terms
This is the scientific name of the kneecap.
What is the patella?
This includes flexion, extension, slight rotation, and supporting the body.
What is the purpose of the knee?
The shin bone.
What is the tibia?
This syndrome is when the fatty tissue of the knee becomes inflamed and pinched, causing pain.
What is fat pad syndrome?
This describes an inward and bending twisting force. When applied to the knee, it can result in a LCL sprain.
What is varus stress?
This category includes the vastus medialis, vastus intermedius, vastus lateralis, and the rectus femoris.
What is the quad muscle group?
The floating bone in between the tibia and the femur.
Where is the patella?
This is caused by direct blow to lateral side of the knee, forcing the knee inward.
What is an MCL sprain?
This describes an outward bending or twisting force. When applied to the knee, it may result in a MCL sprain. What is valgus stress?
What is valgus stress?
This category includes the MCL, LCL, ACL, and the PCL.
What are the ligaments of the knee?
A ligament in the knee that connects the tibia to the femur AND prevents the tibia from moving too much or sliding behind the femur.
What is the PCL?
Crepetis is a huge sign of this problem in the knee.
What is a symptom of meniscus tears?
This is the growth plate on the end of a bone.
What are the epiphyseal plates?
Two cresent shaped wedges of cartilage to help with shock absorption, distributing forces, and improving stability.
What are the menisci?
This category includes articular cartilage and meniscus.
What are the types of knee cartilage?
This test is when the patient is kept in a supine position, a knee is kept 90 degrees, and the examiner gives anterior force to the proximal tibia.
What is the anterior drawer test?
This is the area where the sartorius, gracilis, and semitendinosus muscles attach to the anteromedial tibia.
What is the pes anserine?
A growth condition that is painful because the femur grows faster than the quad, so there's more pressure on the growth plates.
What is Osgood-Schlatter?
It's purpose is to restrict anterior translation of the tibia on the femur.
What is the function of the ACL?
This test is when the patient is kept in a supine position, the examiner's knee is under the patient's knee, and there's 20 degrees of flexion. Then, the examiner stabilizes the distal femur and pulls the proximal tibia forward with the other hand.
What is the Lachman's test?