Hip Redux
The "ALL" - the previously unknown knee ligament.
...the Belgian doctors are the first to identify the previously unknown ligament after a broad cadaver study using macroscopic dissection techniques. Their research shows that the ligament, which was given the name anterolateral ligament (ALL), is present in 97 per cent of all human knees. Subsequent research shows that pivot shift, the giving way of the knee in patients with an ACL tear, is caused by an injury in the ALL ligament.
This seems amazing to me. 2013 and we're discovering new body parts!
delicate flower
Weird. With all the knee surgeries, knee replacements, xrays, and MRI's that have been performed (millions, maybe?), no doctor has ever noticed this ligament before?
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And in the picture, it's RIGHT THERE. Not like it's hidden or anything!
Why would 3% of the population not have this ligament? How do they function without it?
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Barking Mad To Run
Well, it's good that French doctors discovered it. So now the French Army will be able to turn even more quickly and retreat without hurting their knees.
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." Theodore Roosevelt
Belgian doctors are not French, Scotty. French speaking, maybe, but not French! You would be insulting both sides if you told them that they are the same.
Oh..okay....sorry about that....so they can fix your leg and give you waffles while you're recovering....nice!
running is bad for you
FTW!
My thoughts exactly.
I would like to hear what Dr. James Andrews, who has performed dozens if not hundreds of ACL/MCL repairs on million dollar athletes thinks about this. Further, RGlll's knee gave way when he re-injured it last season. He had previously torn one of those ligaments and could be subject to another episode if this is true.
Smaller By The Day
Somewhere there's a man or woman saying, "I pointed that out to my professor 10 years ago, when we dissected that damn cadaver!".
Improvements
Weight 100 pounds lost
5K 31:02 Sept. 2012 / 23:36 Sept. 2013 (Same Course)
10K 48:59 April 2013
HM 2:03:56 Nov. 2012 / 1:46:50 March 2013
MARATHON 3:57:33 Nov. 2013
Caretaker/Overlook Hotel
Awwh man Oski.......I meant to post this yesterday.
In fact, I was going to say if there's a specific place in my left knee (and I believe that's a left knee cadaver pic) then that EXACT place is where my knee hurts.....(aside from general ache).
My doc's gonna look at my knee tomorrow. I'm gonna tell him he could probably start by looking at the ALL & see if he catches it.
Randy
Glad you are seeing the doc! You can tell him all about the ALL if he doesn't know it exists (also - ask him how the eff he missed it before)