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PGA.com
Knee surgery knocks Woods out of 90th PGA Championship
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Tiger Woods underwent season-ending reconstructive surgery on his left knee June 24, forcing the world No. 1 to miss the 90th PGA Championship at Oakland ...
Focused exercise program can protect ACL
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com, NJ -
The ACL is a major stabilizing ligament of the knee. It prevents the shinbone from sliding forward on the thighbone. A partially torn ACL may heal on its ...
Rehabbing Knee, McIntosh Works 'on the Mental Game'
Washington Post, United States - Jul 30, 2008
McIntosh, who is beginning his third season, tore the anterior cruciate and medial collateral ligaments in his left knee in a 22-10 victory over the New ...

Seahawks.net
Receivers Looking to Gain Separation
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CB DeMichael Dizer was placed on injured reserve after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in his knee. Dizer was not likely to make the 53-man roster. ...
Hawks dealing with injury bug
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Backup tackle Floyd Womack suffered a knee injury Saturday, though it is not thought to be serious. Still, Womack was filling in for Walter Jones while ...
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PR Web (press release), WA - Aug 1, 2008
While mild ACL injuries may heal by themselves over time, these injuries do not self-heal, and serious tears to the ligaments are irreparable, ...
Females at greater risk of sport injuries
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An ACL is a tiny ligament the size of a pinky that stabilizes the knee. When it ruptures or tears -- and Michael Sokolove prefers the word rupture "because ...
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The Herald, UK - Aug 3, 2008
Common injuries are of the collateral ligaments, on either side of the joint, and the cruciate, a cross-like structure inside the knee that controls how the ...
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Detroit Free Press, United States - Aug 3, 2008
Maria Khoury: The Bloomfield Hills Lahser (2008) basketball player tore the anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee in a summer league game before her ...LON:BEST
Sunderland fear injured Jones will need surgery
guardian.co.uk, UK - Jul 17, 2008
Although Jones damaged knee ligaments in early June following a challenge from England's goalkeeper David James during a friendly against his native ...
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Biomechanics of knee ligament healing, repair and reconstruction -
SLY Woo, SS Chan, T Yamaji - Journal of Biomechanics, 1997 - Elsevier
... the basic biomechanical information re- garding knee ligaments, we ... is a frequently
torn extra-articular ligament and has a great propensity to heal, it has ...

… knee ligament healing: Combined medial collateral and anterior cruciate ligament injuries studied in … -
SLY Woo, C Niyibizi, J Matyas, K Kavalkovich, C … - Acta Orthopaedica, 1997 - informaworld.com
... Bray S, Shrive N, Frank C, Chimich D. The early effects of joint immobilization
on medial collateral ligament heal- ing in an ACL-deficient knee: A gross ...

Early knee motion after open and arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction -
FR Noyes, RE Mangine, S Barber - The American Journal of Sports Medicine, 1987 - ajs.sagepub.com
... The hypothesis proposed in this study was that the initiation of active and passive
knee motion within 48 hours of major intraarticular knee ligament surgery ...

[CITATION] Tissue Engineering of Ligament and Tendon Healing. -
SLY Woo, K Hildebrand, N Watanabe, JA Fenwick, CD … - Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, 1999
... In some cases, such as the anterior cruciate ligament of the knee, healing fails
to take place and replacement tissues or grafts are required. ...

Healing and Repair of Ligament Injuries in the Knee -
SLY Woo, TM Vogrin, SD Abramowitch - Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, 2000 - Am Acad Ortho Surgeons
... Clinical experience has shown that an isolated ruptured medial collateral ligament
(MCL) of the knee can heal with nonoperative care, but that a midsubstance ...

Cartilage injuries: A review of 31,516 knee arthroscopies -
WW Curl, J Krome, ES Gordon, J Rushing, BP Smith, … - Arthroscopy: The Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery, 1997 - Elsevier
... are common, injured cartilage has a limited ability to heal. ... For arthros- copy of
the knee, the recorded ... chondral injury, meniscal injury, and ligament injury. ...

Magnetic resonance imaging of posterior cruciate ligament injuries: assessment of healing.
KD Shelbourne, RW Jennings, TN Vahey - Am J Knee Surg, 1999 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... These results demonstrate that most nonoperatively treated PCL injuries, even in
association with other knee ligament damage, can heal with continuity. ...

Knee rehabilitation after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction and repair -
L Paulos, FR Noyes, E Grood, DL Butler - The American Journal of Sports Medicine, 1981 - ajs.sagepub.com
... ciate ligament forces and healing strength is still low. A balance of quadriceps
and hamstring forces is nec- essary for proper knee kinematics. De-emphasis of ...

Medial collateral ligament healing: A multidisciplinary assessment in rabbits -
C Frank, SLY Woo, D Amiel, F Harwood, M Gomez, W … - The American Journal of Sports Medicine, 1983 - ajs.sagepub.com
... A baseline of liga- ment healing by scar formation has been established.
Severe knee ligament injuries are rapidly becoming recog- ...

Healing of the Medial Collateral Ligament of the Knee: A Morphological and Biochemical Assessment in … -
C Frank, D Amiel, WH Akeson - Acta Orthopaedica, 1983 - informaworld.com
Page 1. Acta orthop. scand. 54, 917-923, 1983 HEALING OF THE MEDIAL COLLATERAL LIGAMENT
OF THE KNEE A Morphological and Biochemical Assessment in Rabbits ...

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Joint fluid injections help knee ligament heal

Last Updated: 2007-08-02 16:53:43 -0400 (Reuters Health)

By David Douglas

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Injections of hyaluronic acid, a lubricating fluid found in joints, lead to early improvement in patients who have undergone anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) repair, according to Taiwanese researchers.

The ACL connects the thigh bone to the tibia, the larger of the two bones in the lower leg. The ligament, which is designed to prevent hyperextension at the knee joint, can be injured during sports activities, especially basketball, football, soccer and skiing.

"Our study findings imply that hyaluronic acid may increase the effect of rehabilitation for patients with ACL reconstruction," lead investigator Dr. Mao-Hsiung Huang told Reuters Health.

As reported in the Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine, Huang of Kaohsiung Medical University and colleagues studied 120 patients with an ACL injury who underwent reconstruction using part of a tendon connected to their knee cap.

All patients participated in a regular 16-week rehabilitation program and were randomly assigned to receive knee joint injections of hyaluronic acid or saline weekly for 3 weeks.

Thirty patients started hyaluronic acid injections at 4 weeks after surgery, 30 did so at 8 weeks, and 30 began at 12 weeks. The remaining 30 patients received normal saline starting 4 weeks after surgery.

Patients were regularly evaluated using tests measuring range of motion and walking speed, among other parameters.

There were improvements in all of the patients treated with hyaluronic acid shortly after receiving the agent, but not in patients given saline.

After the rehabilitation program, and at follow-up, patients who received hyaluronic acid after 8 or 12 weeks showed greater improvements in walking speed and maximum muscle strength. At 1 year, the best results were seen in patients who had started hyaluronic acid at 8 weeks.

In light of these findings, the researchers recommend using hyaluronic acid at 8 weeks in addition to rehabilitation in patients who have undergone ACL reconstruction.

SOURCE: Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine, July 2007.

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