Muscles
Flexes the Knee joint
What are the Hamstring Muscles?
Double fold of synovial tissue in the knee.
What is a plica?
Can result from a valgus force on the knee joint.
What is a sprained Medial Collateral Ligament?
The bony "knobs" at the distal ends of the tibia and fibula.
What are the malleoli?
This test checks the integrity of the Medial Collateral Ligament of the knee.
What is the Valgus test?
Rectus Femoris, Vastus Medialis, Vastus Lateralis, Vastus Intermedius
What are the Quadriceps?
The direction the patella moves in a dislocation injury.
What is lateral?
Prevents the tibia from moving forward in relation to the femur.
What is the Anterior Cruciate Ligament?
What are the Deltoid ligaments?
Tests the integrity of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament
What is the Lachmans, Anterior drawer sign, or Pivot Shift test?
Everts the foot and ankle.
What are the Peroneal muscles?
The patellar tendon and the tibial tuberosity are involved in this common knee injury in adolescents.
What is Osgood-Slater disease?
This graft type comes from a cadaver.
What is an allograft?
Most commonly injured ligament in the ankle joint.
What is the Anterior Talofibular ligament?
The Thompson test checks the integrity of which structure?
Gastrocnemius and Soleus
What are the calf muscles?
Common name of patellar tendonitis/tendonosis
What is Jumper's knee?
Gold Standard for reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament.
What is patellar tendon autograft?
Common name of a syndesmosis ankle injury.
What is a High Ankle sprain?
This test checks the stability of the patella.
What is the patellar apprehension sign/test?
Strong dorsiflexor of the foot and ankle
What is the Tibialis Anterior?
Joint line tenderness, locking of the knee
What are signs of a meniscus injury?
This ligament is injured from a blow to the front of the lower leg while the knee is bent
What is the posterior cruciate ligament?
This holds the peroneal tendons in place behind the lateral malleolus.
What is the peroneal retinaculum?
The Mcmurray test checks for injury of this structure in the knee.
What is the meniscus?