Overweight patients incur notably higher patellofemoral contact stresses during activities that require increased knee flexion, potentiating the risk of patellar fracture. Six of 14 (43% ...

This is much rarer than a torn cruciate ligament, a rupture of the hamstring tendon or a fracture of the kneecap. In the ...

Surgeons must devise and implement calculated treatment algorithms when performing periprosthetic fracture revisions following total hip and total knee arthroplasties, according to a presenter here.In ...

Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Nakobe Dean suffered a torn patellar tendon in his knee ... season after undergoing surgery on a Lisfranc fracture. That injury sidelined Dean for the majority ...

Fracture of the patella after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is rare. Fourteen cases of patellar fracture after TKA identified from a series 557 TKAs are reviewed. The overall incidence of patellar ...