It has generally been thought that restoration of patellar bone thickness helps prevent patellar fracture after TKA. Reuben and colleagues [20] demonstrated that a patellar bone thickness of 15 mm ...

Traditional bone-patellar tendon-bone and hamstring tendon ACL grafts are not without limitations. A growing body of anatomic, biomechanical and clinical data has demonstrated the utility of ...

such as a patellar tendon tear, or a fracture to the bone. Symptoms may include pain, swelling, a feeling of instability, or ...

The patella is the largest sesamoid bone in the body and articulates with the trochlear groove of the femur. It usually possesses a median ridge that divides the proximal patella into medial and ...

As in humans, your dog’s kneecap is a bone that sits on the front of their knee. It actually sits inside a tendon that goes ...

In medical terms, the fabella - which means little bean - is a sesamoid bone, meaning it grows in the tendon of a muscle, just like the kneecap or patella. Dr Michael Berthaume and colleagues at ...

However, a 2019 review notes that patellar and quadriceps tendinopathy are separate conditions that may coexist. The quadriceps tendon connects muscle to bone and causes pain at the top of the ...