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 ...

More information: Vineet M. Desai et al, Patient Characteristics and Postoperative Outcomes of Surgically Treated Inferior Pole Patellar Sleeve Fractures, Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics (2024).

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 ...