title: Knee stability assessment on anterior cruciate ligament injury: Clinical and biomechanical approaches.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: 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
authors.forename: Mak-Ham
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Lam
authors.forename: Daniel Tp
authors.initials: DT
authors.lastname: Fong
authors.forename: Patrick Sh
authors.initials: PSh
authors.lastname: Yung
authors.forename: Eric Py
authors.initials: EP
authors.lastname: Ho
authors.forename: Wood-Yee
authors.initials: WY
authors.lastname: Chan
authors.forename: Kai-Ming
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Chan