The menisci cover roughly 60% of the surface of the tibia. A transverse ligament connects the two menisci in the knee joint. The menisci attach to such parts of your leg tissues to help them ...

Ligament injuries in the knee-- such as an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) -- can put you on the sidelines -- fast. They hurt a lot and may limit what you can do. But more often than not ...

As load sharing between knee ligaments is complex, frontal as well as sagittal and transverse plane loading mechanisms likely contribute to non-contact ACL injury. The purpose of this review is to ...

Here are some of the possible causes. Your ACL isn’t the only knee ligament that can get injured. However, an injury to your posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) at the back of your knee joint is ...

Belgian surgeons' discovery of the purpose of a previously unknown knee ligament may be a game changer for injured athletes. The anterolateral ligament (ALL) could be the reason behind a common ...

He described the structure as a pearly, "fibrous band" on the outside of the bones in the knee. That sure sounds like a ligament. But nobody really gave it much thought. And poof! Over the next ...

The human knee has more components than previously thought. Two Belgian knee surgeons have discovered a previously unknown ligament located in the muscles and tendons of the human knee – a part ...

A soccer knee injury, when it involves a torn ligament, can require surgery, depending on the tear and which of the four main ligaments of the knee. Nick Tre. Smith/file photo Special to the Star Q.

These scientists were prompted to find the ligament after reading an article published in 1879 by Paul Segond, the namesake of the Segond knee fracture. The French surgeon described a “pearly, ...