Commonly found among male athletes who participate in cutting and pivoting sports, such as soccer, football, basketball and hockey, groin injuries have been associated with a myriad of descriptions ...

The peroneal tendons are the tendons that connect the muscles of the outer side of the lower leg to the foot. These tendons may be affected by inflammation (tendonitis) or tears. Learn more about ...

The SLAP tear occurs at the point where one of the tendons of the biceps muscle inserts on the labrum. The injury is to a part of the shoulder joint called the labrum. The shoulder joint is a ball ...

Tendons are tough, inelastic bands of connective tissue formed of a dense, highly organized matrix of parallel collagen fibres that is maintained by resident tenocytes. Tendons attach skeletal ...

What is posterior tibialis tendon surgery? Posterior tibialis tendon surgery is a way to fix the tendon on the back of your calf that goes down the inside part of your ankle. A surgeon can do a few ...

We proposed a muscle-tendon parameter personalization method and developed the individualized OpenSim models for the patients using this data. We validated the personalized models’ output fiber length ...

If you spend a lot of time sitting down behind your desk, you’ve probably experienced tight hip flexors at some point. Tight hip flexors can also cause knee and back pain, so even if they don ...

Background: The treatment of patellar tendon injury has always been an unsolved problem, and mechanical characterization is very important for its repair and reconstruction. Elastin is a contributor ...

This study aimed to evaluate patellar tendon loading profiles (loading index, based on loading peak, loading impulse, and loading rate) of rehabilitation exercises to develop clinical guidelines to ...

Ankylosing spondylitis is an inflammatory condition that affects the spine and areas where tendons and ligaments attach to bone. However, it has many other possible symptoms beyond the spine. Hip ...