What is a Knee joint Cartilage Tear? The two types of knee joint cartilage tears include traumatic and degenerative tears. Traumatic tears occur through twisting injuries of the knee and degenerative tears occur over time through wear and tear on the joint. Do Cartilage Tears heal? It depends on the location and severity of the […]
Ligament injury of the knee: When to see someone.
Imagine this scenario: You are playing sport on the weekend when you step hard to change direction and your knee buckles underneath you, leaving a sharp searing pain in your knee. You hobble off to the sideline and ice the knee straight away. The next day you go and visit ED who send you for […]
Knee Braces
Do knee braces cause muscle wasting? It’s often stated that knee braces can cause muscle wasting, if used for too long. However there has been very little research into this. A study in 2016 by Callaghan et al. (reference below) assessed 108 patients using braces for OA of the patella-femoral joint. They found that the […]
Runner’s Knee: Symptoms, Causes, Treatment and Prevention
What is Runner’s Knee and how do I treat it? The most common type of knee problem is pain that occurs around the front of the knee or knee cap, also called the patella. This pain is often referred to as Runner’s Knee, which we call a “bucket” diagnosis because it includes several different causes. […]
Arthritis in my knee – should I run, will I wear out my knee joints?
We live in a world with gravity. This means as we move, our load bearing joints are compressed and frictional forces applied to the joint surface, and just like a car’s brake discs when we continue to use them in this fashion they will eventually undergo erosion. (a.k.a. arthritis) Unlike brake discs though articular cartilage is a […]
Things You Didn’t Know About Knees!
How many bones are there in the knee? There are four major bones in the knee, including: the femur the tibia the fibula the patella But did you know about the fabella! The fabella is a tiny bone that sits in the back of the knee in about 10-30% of humans. It’s usually embedded in […]