The posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) is the strongest ligament in the knee joint. Ligaments are thick, strong bands of tissue that connect bone to bone. The PCL runs along the back of the knee ...

A posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) injury is a tear or sprain of the PCL, a ligament that crosses the back of your knee. Ligaments are tough bands of tissue that connect bones.

The posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) is one of the important stabilizing ligaments of the knee joint, connecting the femur to the tibia, and it keeps the tibia from moving back on the femur.

The posterior cruciate ligament was long the forgotten stepchild of knee ligaments. When ruptured — which occurs most often in car accidents, when the knee hits the dashboard and the tibia (shin ...

Lecture 4 Diagnosis and management of posterior and cruciate ligament tears has advanced over the past two decades due to important understanding of the natural history of injury and basic science ...

Ligaments are vital to your joints working the way they’re supposed to. This WebMD article explains what and where ligaments are and how you can injure them.

Figure 2. Figure 3. Firstly, diagnostic arthroscopy was performed. The posterior cruciate ligament appeared wider and grayer than normal on gross examination, and it was tough and inelastic ...

New knee implant saves the ligaments Date: July 22, 2014 Source: Houston Methodist Summary: A new total knee replacement that saves all of the ligaments can make a person’s knee feel and move ...

The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is affected ten times more frequently than the posterior cruciate ligament because it is longer and thinner. Most cruciate ligament tears are so-called non ...

Use of ultrasound guidance may provide reproducible femoral positioning of the anterolateral graft posterior and proximal to the lateral epicondyle compared with the use of palpation alone ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - FC Cincinnati announced Wednesday that defender Matt Miazga had a successful reconstructive surgery of the Posterior Cruciate Ligament (PCL) and meniscus in New York. The ...

Most everyone has heard of an anterior cruciate ligament injury of the knee. This is a year-ending injury for football players, skiers and athletes as they recover from likely surgical reconstructi… ...