Treatment of Injuries to the Knee Joint

INJURIES to the knee joint may be discussed under the following three headings: diagnosis, treatment of surrounding structures and treatment of the joint itself. The third consideration, which is the most important, is the aspect of treatment that is usually neglected.The basis of all treatment of the knee joint is an appreciation of the physiology of the knee and of how it is disturbed by injury to the joint. There is a mistaken idea that various ligaments stabilize the knee joint. The only two positions in which the ligaments stabilize the joints in living human beings are complete extension . . .