title: [Research advance of ligament injury and ligament healing].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To introduce the research advance of the ligament injury and ligament healing.
  
  
  METHODS
  Recent original articles related to such aspects of ligament were reviewed extensively.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The ligament properties would be influenced when the situations of the biochemistry and biomechanics had changed. Injuries to ligaments induce a healing response that is characterized by scar formation. Graft could not recovery the ultrastructure, anatomy and biomechanics of the normal ligament.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The healing ligament is weaker than normal one, and the graft could not reconstruct normal ligament at present.
authors.affiliation: Orthopedics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu Sichuan, 610041, PR China.
authors.forename: Xiao
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Jian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D008022:Ligaments / Q000293:injuries* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D008023:Ligaments, Articular / Q000293:injuries / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D014945:Wound Healing / Q000502:physiology*