Medial and Anterior Instability of the Knee

AN ANATOMICAL AND CLINICAL STUDY USING STRESS MACHINES

¹ From the Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, the University of Western Ontario, London

Our clinical stress machine serves as an additional aid in the detection of isolated or combined damage to ligamentous structures about the knee. The machine has greatly assisted in the classification of chronic ligamentous damage. In the questionable gray area of medial instability, machine evaluation has been a great asset in making critical therapeutic decisions.

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