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Keith Baar discusses how intensive exercising after injury or when overweight can cause damage to ligaments and tendons. He also talks about the importance of integrating isometric or static exercises into our fitness routines. What are isometric exercises? Isometric or static exercises are moves that involve contracting or tightening the muscles without changing their length. They are positions that hold the body or limbs in a fixed position for a period of time. They include planks, squats, lunges and many more positions. We hear about walking 10,000 steps a day. It is totally fine for people to get their steps....

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...