Knee stability assessment on anterior cruciate ligament injury: Clinical and biomechanical approaches.
Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury is common in knee joint accounting for 40% of sports injury. ACL injury leads to knee instability, therefore, understanding knee stability assessments would be useful for diagnosis of ACL injury, comparison between operation treatments and establishing return-to-sport standard. This article firstly introduces a management model for ACL injury and the contribution of knee stability assessment to the corresponding stages of the model. Secondly, standard clinical examination, intra-operative stability measurement and motion analysis for functional assessment are reviewed. Orthopaedic surgeons and scientists with related background are encouraged to understand knee biomechanics and stability assessment for ACL injury patients.
Lam
Mak-Ham
MH
Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Prince of Wales Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, PR China. makham_lam@ort.cuhk.edu.hk
Fong
Daniel Tp
DT
Yung
Patrick Sh
PSh
Ho
Eric Py
EP
Chan
Wood-Yee
WY
Chan
Kai-Ming
KM