Unlabelled: Backround: Knee trauma with arthrogenic muscle inhibition (AMI) lead to muscle weakness. The aim of this study was to analyse the intensity of AMI after meniscus and cartilage injuries and to investigate the association between age, BMI and severity of cartilage leasions with AMI.
Patients And Methods: 48 patients with meniscus or cartilage injury were preoperatively interviewed and examined for isometric maximum force values of the extension muscles of the knee joints. We analysed AMI as comparison of maximum isometric force values between healthy and injured leg by use of Wilcoxon matched pairs test. Moreover a regression analysis was done to assess the association between age, BMI and severity of cartilage lesion with AMI.
Results: Trauma of the knee joint with meniscus or cartilage injuries led to a 23.6 % reduction of maximum force values of injured in comparison to healthy leg (460.1 ± 223.6 N vs. 601.9 ± 224.6 N, P < 0,000001) in mean. Regression analysis did not show associations between age (β -2.645, P = 0.345), BMI (β 2.268, P = 0.792) or severity of cartilage damage (β -13.527, P = 0.670) with AMI.
Conclusions: Trauma of the knee joint with meniscus or cartilage damage cause an AMI with 23.6 % force reduction. We could not identify an association between age and AMI.
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J Orthop Surg Res
January 2025
Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Faculty of Medicine, Ege University, Bornova, 35100, Izmir, Turkey.
Purpose: To evaluate the radiological and clinical outcomes in two patient groups: first, varus aligned medial meniscus posterior root tear (MMPRT) patients who underwent posteromedial open wedge high tibial osteotomy (PMOWHTO) and simultaneous root repair; second, patients with varus medial knee osteoarthritis without MMPRT who underwent PMOWHTO.
Methods: Patients had MMPRT repair concomitant with PMOWHTO and varus medial knee osteoarthritis without concomitant root tear patients who underwent PMOWHTO and were reviewed. Radiographic parameters, medial meniscus extrusion (MME) and Knee Society Scores [KSSs, including the following subscores: knee score (KS) and knee function score (KFS)] were evaluated.
Biomedicines
January 2025
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hallym Sacred Heart University Hospital, Hallym University, Anyang-si 13496, Republic of Korea.
Popliteal cysts (PCs) are occasionally accompanied by knee osteoarthritis (OA) and varus malalignment. However, whether concomitant arthroscopic excision of PCs with medial open-wedge high tibial osteotomy (MOWHTO) improves the osteoarthritic environment remains unclear. Therefore, this study assessed serial changes in C-size, medial meniscus extrusion (MME), and cartilage status for up to 2 years following an MOWHTO.
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January 2025
Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
Case: A 16-year-old woman presented with acute on chronic knee pain and instability following a twisting injury. The tibial insertion of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) was nonvisualized on magnetic resonance imaging. A cord-like ACL, originating from the lateral intercondylar notch and inserting smoothly into the anterior horn of the intact lateral meniscus, was found on arthroscopy.
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January 2025
Department of Sports Medicine of the Second Affiliated Hospital, and Liangzhu Laboratory, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 311113, China.
Joining heterogeneous materials in engineered structures remains a significant challenge due to stress concentration at interfaces, which often leads to unexpected failures. Investigating the complex, multiscale-graded structures found in animal tissue provides valuable insights that can help address this challenge. The human meniscus root-bone interface is an exemplary model, renowned for its exceptional fatigue resistance, toughness, and interfacial adhesion properties throughout its lifespan.
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January 2025
The Third Orthopedic Department, the First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin Heilongjiang, 150001, P. R. China.
Objective: To measure and analyze the relationships among the posterior tibial slope (PTS), meniscal slope (MS), and meniscus posterior horn thickness (MPHT) of the medial and lateral tibial plateau in healthy people and patients with anteromedial osteoarthritis (AMOA) in Heilongjiang province, so as to provide reference basis for appropriate tibial osteotomy and prosthesis placement angles in knee joint surgeries.
Methods: A retrospective collection of imaging data from knee joint MRI examinations conducted prior to AMOA for various reasons was performed. A total of 103 healthy individuals (healthy group) and 30 AMOA patients (AMOA group) were included.
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