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An injury to the knee can lead to sprained external ligaments (medial and lateral collateral) or internal ligaments (anterior and posterior cruciate) or meniscal injuries

Synovial fluid is a thick liquid that helps your joints move and keeps them from rubbing together. It is also called joint fluid. All of your joints have this liquid around them but you will have less of it as you get older. That's partly why your joints

Knee pain and swelling can be caused by a number of conditions or injuries. Among athletes, injury to the posterolateral corner (PLC) of the knee is one common cause of this type of pain.

With one in five people experiencing ongoing pain long after knee replacement surgery, new research has shown a way to help reduce people's continuing pain that could also save time and money too.

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a form of arthritis where joint cartilage breaks down. Primary OA has no clear cause. Secondary OA, however, occurs as a result of an existing medical condition, joint injury, or abnormality.

Physical therapy for knee arthritis tends to cost patients more out-of-pocket and involves a lot more hassle than a quick steroid shot to soothe an aching joint. But in the long run, physical therapy is at least as cost-effective as steroid injections and

ACL injuries accelerate the development of osteoarthritis because the injury changes how the knee works, and the trauma affects the cartilage and other knee tissues.

Over the past two decades, evidence has emerged for the existence of a distinct population of endogenous progenitor cells in adult articular cartilage, predominantly referred to as articular cartilage-derived progenitor cells (ACPCs).

Synthetic implants have been used in a variety of orthopedic procedures, initially replacing the parts of the skeletal system before being put into service to replace soft tissues, according to sources who spoke with Orthopedics Today.

Patients who underwent arthroscopic acetabular labral repair for cartilage damage with bone marrow aspirate concentrate had ?significantly greater functional improvements? than those without bone marrow aspirate concentrate, results showed.