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New Ligament Discovered In the Human Knee
sciencedaily ^ | Nov. 5, 2013

Posted on 11/06/2013 9:23:18 AM PST by JoeProBono

Two knee surgeons at University Hospitals Leuven have discovered a previously unknown ligament in the human knee. This ligament appears to play an important role in patients with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears. Despite a successful ACL repair surgery and rehabilitation, some patients with ACL-repaired knees continue to experience so-called 'pivot shift', or episodes where the knee 'gives way' during activity.

For the last four years, orthopedic surgeons Dr Steven Claes and Professor Dr Johan Bellemans have been conducting research into serious ACL injuries in an effort to find out why. Their starting point: an 1879 article by a French surgeon that postulated the existence of an additional ligament located on the anterior of the human knee. That postulation turned out to be correct:

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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: knee; knees; ligament
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To: 7thson
I opted in Engineering school for a traditional mechanical drafting class as opposed to the "So you think you wanna be a Mechanical Engieer" Freshman Fundamentals of Engineering Design class. None of what was taught in the class was new to me, as I had hand drafting in GRADE SCHOOL Industrial Arts class... and plenty of experience with geometric methods for drawing.

The biggest takeaway from the class was the inability of about 40% of the class to properly reckon Front, Top, Side Orthographic projections to an Isometric. It was disturbing to consider that these people were going to be the Professional Engineers of the future.

One thing that is NOT misogyny here AT ALL... of that 40% of the class that couldn't "get it", all of the females in the class were in that grouping. Females don't have the spatial association accuity that males do... but stating such in college these days would be grounds for accusation of a hate crime and immediate, unappealable suspension.

41 posted on 11/06/2013 11:29:01 AM PST by Rodamala
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To: JoeProBono

Bet that would be pretty tasty with some honey BBq sauce


42 posted on 11/06/2013 11:30:03 AM PST by al baby (Hi Mom ;Sarcasm is my bidness)
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To: JoeProBono
YTour FR sweetheart.


43 posted on 11/06/2013 11:32:51 AM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: al baby

44 posted on 11/06/2013 11:35:49 AM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: Shamrock498

I was thinking the same thing. How can any physical item of that size have possibly escaped notice until now?


45 posted on 11/06/2013 11:48:10 AM PST by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: Revolting cat!

From the look of her knees I’d have to say Catherine Zeta-Jones weeds her own garden and scrubs her own bathtub.

Have to say I respect her for that.


46 posted on 11/06/2013 12:10:48 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

you respect her for something you might be imagining?


47 posted on 11/06/2013 12:14:08 PM PST by GeronL
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To: JoeProBono

So, now we know that there is a ALL (AnteroLateral Ligament), then is stands to reason that there is an AML (AnteroMedial Ligament) to increase the stability of the knee, yes?


48 posted on 11/06/2013 12:22:44 PM PST by coincheck (Time is Short, Salvation is for Today)
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To: neverdem

Ping


49 posted on 11/06/2013 1:21:52 PM PST by raybbr (I weep over my sons' future in this Godforsaken country.)
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To: freebilly
How the hell could that be overlooked for all these years...?

I wonder why, in all these years of futzing around in people's knees, no one has noticed this ligament before? Did no medical student, while working on his cadaver in anatomy lab, think to ask the professor "Hey, Professor, what's this thing? It's not in my Gray's Anatomy!"

50 posted on 11/06/2013 11:29:17 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Mashood
Very common in Republican politicians... weak kneed...

Well, the article DID say that 97% of human knees had the ALL . . perhaps you're onto something here. We should require the leadership of the RNC and the Senate GOP to have a MRI of their knees before they get appointed to those positions to assure they aren't in the 3% without an ALL. The ones we have now must lack that ligament.

51 posted on 11/06/2013 11:35:26 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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