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Knee injury

Knee injury: Introduction

Any injury involving the knee. The knee is the area surrounding the knee joint which is one of the largest joints in the body as it has to cope with a lot of pressure. The end of the thigh bone and the top of the lower leg bones are attached to the kneecap. Knee injuries can result from a sudden trauma causing a dislocation, sprain or break as well as from repetitive motions such as running or jumping. ...more »

Symptoms of Knee injury

• Knee pain
• Knee swelling
• Knee inflammation
• Knee wound
• Decreased mobility
• more symptoms...»

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Home Diagnostic Testing

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Wrongly Diagnosed with Knee injury?

• Misdiagnosis of Knee injury

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Knee injury: Deaths

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Types of Knee injury

• Knee sprain
• Knee strain (type of Knee conditions)
• Knee tendinitis
• Meniscus injury
• more types...»

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Causes of Knee injury

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Disease Topics Related To Knee injury

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Knee injury: Undiagnosed Conditions

Commonly undiagnosed diseases in related medical categories:

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  • Fibromyalgia -- Undiagnosed
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• more undiagnosed conditions...»

Misdiagnosis and Knee injury

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Knee injury: Research Doctors & Specialists

Research related physicians and medical specialists:

• Bone, Joint and Orthopedic Specialists:
  • Orthopedic Surgery
  • Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine
  • Rheumatology (Arthritis / Joint Pain)
• Nerve Specialists:
  • Neurology (Brain/CNS Specialists)
  • Pediatric Neurology (Child Brain Specialist)
  • Spinal Cord Injury Medicine
• Pain Specialists:
  • Pain Medicine
• Arthritis & Joint Health Specialists (Rheumatology):
  • Rheumatology (Joint Health)
  • Pediatric Rheumatology (Child Joint Health)
• more specialists...»

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Evidence Based Medicine Research for Knee injury

Medical research articles related to Knee injury include:

• Osteoarthritis
• ChondroCelect - Cartilage defects of the knee
• A comprehensive rehabilitation program with quadriceps strengthening in closed versus open kinetic chain exercise in patients with anterior cruciate ligament deficiency
• Characterized chondrocyte implantation results in better structural repair when treating symptomatic cartilage defects of the knee in a randomized controlled trial versus microfracture
• Braces and Splints for Musculoskeletal Conditions
• Prognostic factors for progression of OA knee
• more research...»

Click here to find more evidence-based articles on the TRIP Database

Knee injury: Animations

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Research about Knee injury

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Clinical Trials for Knee injury

The US based website ClinicalTrials.gov lists information on both federally and privately supported clinical trials using human volunteers.

Some of the clinical trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov for Knee injury include:

• Risk Factors for Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Injury - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• ALGRX 4975 After Total Knee Replacement - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - ALGRX 4975
• Efficacy and Safety of OMS103HP in Patients Undergoing Allograft Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Reconstruction - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - OMS103HP
• Efficacy and Safety of OMS103HP in Patients Undergoing Autograft Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Reconstruction - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - OMS103HP
• Safety of OMS103HP in Patients Undergoing Allograft Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Reconstruction - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - OMS103HP
• more trials...»

See full list of 8 Clinical Trials for Knee injury

Statistics for Knee injury

• Medical statistics for Knee injury
• Death and Mortality statistics for Knee injury
• Society statistics for Knee injury

Knee injury: Broader Related Topics

• Leg injury
• Knee conditions
• Joint conditions
• Lower limb conditions
• Accident or injury conditions
• more types...»

Types of Knee injury

Knee injury Message Boards

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