Healing of Acute Collateral Ligament Tears Associated with Cruciate Ligament Injuries Treated Conservatively by Early Protective Motion

Autor:	Kiyomi Takayanagi, Megumi Miwa, Hidetoshi Ihara, Keizo Deya, Hiroto Nakagawa, Yoshihiro Noro
Rok vydání:	1993
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Under anaesthesia business.industry Traction system musculoskeletal system medicine.disease ACL injury Surgery Cruciate ligament medicine.anatomical_structure Concomitant medicine Ligament Tears Stage (cooking) business human activities
Zdroj:	Orthopedics & Traumatology. 42:673-676
ISSN:	1349-4333 0037-1033
DOI:	10.5035/nishiseisai.42.673
Popis:	The purpose of this study was to evaluate natural healing of the collateral ligament associated with cruciate ligament injury when treated conservatively by early protective motion. Acute ligamentous injuries of the MCL in 10 patients and of the LCL in another 3 patients, who had concomitant ACL injury in 11 patients and PCL in 2 patients, were the subjects of this study. A Kyuro knee brace with a coil-spring traction system was used to add adequate but not excessive stress to the injured tissues at an early stage. Dynamic joint control training was conducted progressively to improve the muscles ability to protect the joint. All patients were examined before treatment and then re-examined after the 3-month treatment, both radiologically and arthroscopically. Ten patients were also evaluated by MR imaging. Lateral laxity on stress radiographs under anaesthesia decreased from an average of 13.5 to 5.5mm (p
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