Chronic Ankle Instability
Author Year Ankles Mean age Follow-up AOFAS score Karlsson score Anterior drawer stress test Talar tilt stress test Oloff et al. [39] 2000 10 34 (19–53) 9.6 months (6–21) Preop:…
Return to Sport After Muscle Tendon Lesions
Fig. 14.1 Echographic image of mild focal soleus muscle overstretching US and MRI are equally sensitive in assessing muscle or tendon injury. However, MRI offers a more detailed analysis of…
Management of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Lesion in Adolescents
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016Piero Volpi (ed.)Arthroscopy and Sport Injuries10.1007/978-3-319-14815-1_48 48. Management of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Lesion in Adolescents Corrado Bait1 , Matteo Denti1 and Piero Volpi2, 3 (1) Unità Operativa di Chirurgia del Ginocchio e Traumatologia…
Knee Arthritis in Athletes
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016Piero Volpi (ed.)Arthroscopy and Sport Injuries10.1007/978-3-319-14815-1_47 47. Knee Arthritis in Athletes Stefano Zaffagnini1 , Tommaso Roberti di Sarsina2 , Alberto Grassi2, Federico Raggi2, Tommaso Bonanzinga2 , Giulio Maria Marcheggiani Muccioli2 and Maurilio Marcacci1 (1) Clinica Ortopedica e Traumatologica II, Laboratorio di Biomeccanica ed…
Posterior Cruciate Ligament
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016Piero Volpi (ed.)Arthroscopy and Sport Injuries10.1007/978-3-319-14815-1_43 43. Posterior Cruciate Ligament Enrico Arnaldi1 , Andrea Bruno1 and Jacopo Tamini1 (1) Arthroscopic and Reconstructive Knee surgery, Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Rozzano, Via Manzoni 56, Rozzano (MI),…
Anterior Cruciate Ligament
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016Piero Volpi (ed.)Arthroscopy and Sport Injuries10.1007/978-3-319-14815-1_41 41. Anterior Cruciate Ligament Pier Paolo Mariani1 , Guglielmo Cerullo2 , Germano Iannella2 and Marco Giacobbe2 (1) Department of sports science and health, Università degli Studi di Roma “Foro Italico”,…
Achilles Tendinopathies
Fig. 9.1 Palpation of a left Achilles tendon. The tendon should be squeezed between the thumb and the index fingers; this procedure should be performed for all the length of…
Shoulder Microtraumatic and Atraumatic Instability
Fig. 20.1 Hyperangulation entails a greater loading phase of the throw with evident increase in force (like a catapult) but also a delicate balance: the stabilisation complex is, in fact,…
Patellar Tendon Rupture
Fig. 12.1 Most common types of patellar tendon lesion: injury at the osteotendinous insertion (red line) and mid-substance injury (blue line) Corticosteroids local injections [12] Diabetes [13, 14] Microtrauma [15]…
Shoulder Management of the First Time Anterior Shoulder Dislocation
Fig. 16.1 Arthroscopic image of the labral capsular ligamentous complex after a first traumatic episode of antero-inferior shoulder dislocation in a basketball player 16.2 Diagnosis The mechanism underlying anterior, or…
