Lecture 6 Ligament and joint injuries Flashcards

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Ligaments (article): structure

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  • Dense bands of collagen tissue
  • Collagen, elastin, proteoglycan, and other proteins
  • Vary in size, shape, orientation and location
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Ligaments(article) function

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  • Connect one bone to another → Passive stabilization of the joints
  • Ligaments can creep
  • Serve important proprioceptive function
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Ligaments(article): response to injury

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  • Healing follows the constant pattern
  • Ligament scars have inferior creep
    properties
  • Ligament injury → decreased
    proprioception
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Joint stability

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  • depends on the interaction between the passive, active and neural subsystems
  • passive subsystem consists of non-contractile connective tissues, ligaments, cartilage, second category of soft tissue unable to contract and relax
  • active subsystem is controlled by the neural subsystem to provide dynamic joint stability
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Types of ligaments

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intre-articular ligaments, extra-articular ligaments, capsular ligaments
- all have different healing capacities

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Intra-articular ligaments

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Primary stabilizer of the joint, acl, pcl, in the joint
e.g., cruciate ligaments of the knee

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Extra-articular ligaments

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-support joint
e.g., calcaneofibular ligament

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Capsular ligaments

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  • Thickening of joint, higher blood, higher healing
    e.g., anterior talofibular ligament
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Adaption to training

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  1. adapt slowly to increased loading, but weaken very rapidly as a result of immobilization
  2. adapt to loading by increasing the cross-sectional area
  3. normal everyday activity is sufficient to maintain mechanical properties
  4. systematic training can increase ligament strength by 10-20%
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Stress-strain curve

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  • If force causes more than a 4% change of length the collagen fibres will start to rupture
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Ligament injuries

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  • typically injured because of acute trauma
  • single identifiable event of injury, mid-tearing couple fibres to complete tear
  • mechanism: sudden overload-> ligament is stretched (joint in an extreme position)
  • repetitive injuries rare, but can occur as the ligament is gradually stretched out
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Grade 1 ligament injury

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-mild
- structural damage on the microscopic level
- no instability

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grade 2 ligament injury

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  • moderate
    -partial tear
    -swelling and pain
  • no/limited instability
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Grage 3 ligament injury

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  • severe
  • full rupture
  • significant swelling
  • instability
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Mechanism of injury

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  1. Felt my knee-cap go out- Patellar dislocation/subluxation
  2. Hit from lateral side - valgus- MCL +/- ACL
  3. Valgus/external rotation - with or
    without contact- ACL +/- MCL +/- lateral meniscus +/- bone bruise
  4. Direct blow to anterior tibia- PCL
  5. Hyperextension injury- ACL
  6. Minor twist in older individual- Degenerative Meniscal tear
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Knee or knee cap?

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Valgus mechanism of injury

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  • ACL injury
  • MCL sprain
  • Lateral dislocation of patella
  • Meniscus injury
  • Lateral tibial plateau fracture or bone bruise
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Hemarthrosis

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  • bleeding into the joint
  • injuries that cause hemarthrosis: acl tear; peripheral meniscus tear; osteochondral injuries; fractures
  • injuries that not usually cause hemarthrosis: mcl tear; central meniscus tear; pcl tear; cartilage injury
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Anterior cruciate ligament injury

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  • ACL – 2 bundles
  • Anteromedial bundle resists
    tibial anterior translation
  • Posterolateral bundle resists tibial rotation
  • No pain fibers, but has proprioceptive fibers
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ACL complications

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  • osteochondral injury
  • acl injury and meniscus tear
  • osteoarthritis în 15-20 years
  • unhappy triad
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ACL treatment- goals

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  • Goal is to prevent recurrent giving way: to prevent subsequent injuries, such as osteochondral injuries and meniscus injuries
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ACL treatment- options

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Three options( as for any unstable joint):
* Modification of activity (no twisting activity)
* Bracing for light twisting activity
* ACL reconstruction (although functional – never normal)

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ACL reconstruction

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  • The graft is weakest at 3 to 6 months!
  • High re-injury rates over 2 years after
    reconstruction
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ACL injury

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  • anatomical factors
  • biomechanical factors
  • neuromuscular factors
  • hormonal factors
  • training related factors
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Prevention of ACL injuries
* Modifiable risk factors * Weak hip abductors an external rotators * Increased knee abduction moments during cutting and landing * Knee Control training program * Adolescent female soccer players (n=4600) * 64% reduction in the rate of ACL injury was seen in the intervention group
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ACL injuries on the rise
- Although current ACL injury prevention training programs have been successful in reducing injuries in controlled research settings, the real- world ACL injury rate remains high, and even continues to increase - The ACL injury rate for girls/women has not changed in over 20 years, and they remain up to 6 times more likely to experience injury compared with boys/men - In addition, as many as 40% sustain a recurrent ACL injury in the same knee or new ACL injury in the contralateral knee
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Shoulder dislocation and sublixation
- common injuries in contact sports
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Dislocation
complete separation of articulating bones
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Subluxation
partial dislocation of articulating bones
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typical mechanism
- direct blow to the posterior aspect of the shoulder - landing on outstretched arm - anterior dislocation, fracture dislocation
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Diagnosis and treatment
- History and physical exmination - imaging - reduction of the shoulder (after confirmed diagnosis) - protection from re-injury - rehabilitation period prior return to sport
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High risk of recurrence
-50-90% depending the type of sport and shoulder dominance - surgical management (in high-risk population) - rehabilitation of the shoulder is critical to long-term function
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Prevention of shoulder dislocations and subluxations?
- strength -proper technique - neuromuscular training - joint position sense