Knowledge and research about football goalkeeper (GK) injuries are scarce, which prevents the development of evidence-based injury prevention programs. Fortunately, progress is evident in injury prevention strategies in outfield football players. How...
Tendons help transmit forces from the skeletal muscles and bones. However, tendons have inferior regenerative ability compared to muscles. Despite studies on the regeneration of muscles and bone tissue, only a few have focused on tendinous tissue reg...
Physical activity increases the risk of non-contact injuries, mainly affecting muscles, tendons, and ligaments. Genetic factors are recognized as contributing to susceptibility to different types of soft tissue injuries, making this broad condition a...
Heterotopic ossification (HO) is the abnormal growth of bone in soft connective tissues that occurs as a frequent complication in individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and in rare genetic disorders. Therefore, understanding the mechanisms beh...
Background: The subacromial space, measured as the acromiohumeral distance (AHD), is a key determinant of shoulder biomechanics and injury risk. Athletes performing repetitive upper-limb resistance training are particularly exposed to cumulative tend...
Tendon injuries pose a clinical challenge due to tendons’ limited recovery. Emerging evidence points to the nervous system’s critical role in tendon healing, with neural markers NGF, NF-200, NPY, CGRP, and GAL modulating inflammation, cel...
We aimed to uncover which rectus femoris strain injury types affect regional activation within the rectus femoris. The rectus femoris has a region-specific functional role; the proximal region of the rectus femoris contributes more than the middle an...
Background: There is a lack of specific genetic studies regarding injuries in women’s football. However, different genetic factors have been associated with tendon/ligament injuries in women football players. The aim of the study was to examine...
Tendon injury and healing involve significant changes to tissue biology and composition. Current techniques often require animal sacrifice or tissue destruction, limiting assessment of dynamic changes in tendons, including treatment response, disease...
The Achilles tendon is the thickest, strongest and largest tendon in the human body, but despite its size and tensile strength, it frequently gets injured. Achilles tendon ruptures (ATRs) mainly occur during sports activities, and their incidence has...
Background and Objectives: Complex wounds in the hand and distal lower extremities pose challenges in reconstructive surgery, often involving critical structures like tendons. Tendon injuries, prevalent in such wounds, necessitate optimal repair meth...
Background: Distal triceps brachii tendon rupture (DTTR) is a relatively rare injury that is common in bodybuilding and high-intensity contact sports and can lead to significant functional impairment of the elbow joint. This study was conducted to ev...
The muscle–tendon junction (MTJ) is a highly specific tissue interface where the muscle’s fascia intersects with the extracellular matrix of the tendon. The MTJ functions as the particular structure facilitating the transmission of force...
Stem cell therapy for the treatment of tendon injury is an emerging clinical practice in the fields of human and veterinary sports medicine; however, the therapeutic benefit of intralesional transplantation of mesenchymal stem cells in tendonitis cas...
Rotator cuff tendon (RCT) disease results from multifactorial mechanisms, in which inflammation plays a key role. Pro-inflammatory cytokines and tendon stem cell/progenitor cells (TSPCs) have been shown to participate in the inflammatory response. Ho...
Patellar tendinopathy is a common clinical problem, but its underlying pathophysiology remains poorly understood, primarily due to the absence of a representative experimental model. The most widely used method to generate such a model is collagenase...
Background/Objectives: An Extensor Pollicis Longus (EPL) subcutaneous rupture is a substantial complication in post-traumatic or degenerative wrist and tendinous lesions. The diagnosis is essentially dictated by a clinical evaluation; in fact, it is...
A non-reducible tibial tuberosity fracture is a rare complication of tibial tuberosity transposition performed during correcting of medial patella luxation (MPL) in dogs. This condition severely disrupts the quadriceps extensor mechanism, leading to...
Introduction: Peroneal disorders are a common cause of ankle pain and lateral instability and have been described in as much as 77% of patients with lateral ankle instability. Clicking, swelling, pain, and tenderness in the peroneal tendons track are...
This study aimed to analyze the biomechanical differences in knees that underwent reconstruction using four-strand hamstring or bone–patellar tendon–bone autografts during the side-hop test. This case–control study included 46 parti...
The fluoroquinolone (FQ) class of antibiotics includes the world’s most prescribed antibiotics such as ciprofloxacin, levofloxacin, and ofloxacin that are known for their low bacterial resistance. This is despite their potential to trigger seve...
Advances in silk-based tissue-engineered constructs offer promising opportunities to improve tendon and ligament repair by increasing graft availability and enhancing patient outcomes. The rising demand for tendon and ligament reconstruction highligh...
Background: Chronic Achilles tendon ruptures (CATRs) pose a clinical challenge because guidelines on optimal treatment modalities are lacking. This meta-analysis aims to investigate the use of Flexor Hallucis Longus (FHL) tendon transfer as a treatme...
Background: Persistent tendon pain and swelling related to mechanical loading are the main signs of Achilles tendinopathy (AT). This condition is one of the most common tendinopathies of the lower limb affecting mainly athletes involved in running an...
8 September 2021
This study aimed at evaluating the burden and risk factors of patellar and Achilles tendinopathy among youth basketball players. Patellar and Achilles tendinopathy were prospectively monitored in 515 eligible male and female youth basketball players...
This observational study aimed to elucidate the effects of RWST on the cardiovascular and musculoskeletal systems of horses and concurrently determine whether RWST limits distal limb temperature increases previously reported during gallop training on...
Peritendinous adhesions are a frequent occurrence following tenolysis and present a major clinical challenge regarding prevention and management, with no recovery assured from conservative or surgical approaches. Herein, we investigated the effective...
18 August 2021
Background: A complete avulsion of the proximal rectus femoris muscle is a rare but severity injury. There is a lack of substantial information for its operative treatment and rehabilitation; in particular there is a lack of biomechanical data to eva...
One of the most common shoulder injuries is the rotator cuff tear (RCT). The risk of RCTs increases with age, with a prevalence of 9.7% in those under 20 years old and up to 62% in individuals aged 80 years and older. In this article, we present firs...
Background/Objectives: Eccentric loading during landing is considered a key factor in the development of patellar tendinopathy and is associated with stiff landings and patellar tendinopathy. This study aims to investigate the relationship between te...
8 December 2014
The management of facial paralysis continues to evolve. Understanding the facial nerve anatomy and the different methods of evaluating the degree of facial nerve injury are crucial for successful management. When the facial nerve is transected, direc...
Introduction: This study hypothesized that changes in the elasticity of the quadriceps and patellar tendons before and after the diagnosis of patellar tendinopathy would correlate with the range of motion (ROM) following conservative treatment. We ai...
28 December 2024
The use of dietary supplements is widespread in sports and fitness, with many products containing multiple ingredients. Among supplements often consumed to support musculotendinous health, collagen hydrolysate (CH) has gained popularity for its poten...
The aim of this study was to describe the nonoperative treatment outcomes of finger flexor tenosynovitis in sport climbers and to evaluate the association with baseline measures and therapy contents. Sixty-five sport climbers (49 males, mean age 34.1...
Shoulder impingement syndrome causes critical disorders such as rotator cuff tear or superior labrum anterior to posterior (SLAP) lesion in both the general public and in athletes whose sports involve throwing. Nevertheless, the biomechanics of the s...
(1) Background: Addressing large to massive rotator cuff tears (LMRCTs) poses complex challenges. This systematic review investigated outcomes of superior capsular reconstruction (SCR) with the long head of the biceps tendon (LHBT) compared to conven...
Tendon transfer surgery is often used to restore hand grasp function following high median-ulnar nerve palsy. This surgery typically reroutes and sutures the tendon of the extensor carpi radialis longus (ECRL) muscle to all four flexor digitorum prof...
Background: Hamstring strain injuries (HSIs) are among the most common and recurrent injuries in sports involving high-speed running. While eccentric training has demonstrated efficacy in reducing HSI risk, the role of sprint training as a preventive...
Although the hamstring muscles play an important role in running, very little is known about the individual contributions of each hamstring muscle (biceps femorislong head, biceps femorisshort head, semitendinosus, and semimembranosus) toward running...
Spasticity, a complex consequence of upper motor neuron lesions, poses challenges for clinical assessment due to its neural and mechanical origins. Traditional scales like the Modified Ashworth and Tardieu Scales provide subjective, context-limited i...
Background: Treatment of chronic painful insertional Achilles tendinopathy is known to be challenging. If non-surgical treatment does not give sufficient relief of symptoms, surgery may be indicated. Treatment with ultrasound (US)- and colour Doppler...
Toe-in (inward) and toe-out (outward) foot alignments significantly affect gait, posture, and joint stress, causing issues like abnormal gait, joint strain, and foot conditions such as plantar fasciitis and high arches. Addressing these alignments is...
Objectives: Hamstring strain injuries are common in elite athletes and affect return-to-sport timelines. Although magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the gold-standard method for assessing injury severity, ultrasonography (US) is a more accessible an...
Achilles tendon rupture is a frequent injury with an increasing incidence. After clinical surgical repair, aimed at suturing the tendon stumps back into their original position, the repaired Achilles tendon is often plastically deformed and mechanica...
Tendon injuries are at the frontier of innovative approaches to public health concerns and sectoral policy objectives. Indeed, these injuries remain difficult to manage due to tendon’s poor healing ability ascribable to a hypo-cellularity and l...
Understanding the links between the tendon healing process, inflammatory mechanisms, and tendon homeostasis/pain after tissue damage is crucial in developing novel therapeutics for human tendon disorders. The inflammatory mechanisms that are operativ...
(1) Background: Patellar and Achilles tendon injuries have become increasingly prevalent, particularly among active populations and athletes, leading to significant functional impairments. While B-Mode ultrasound has been useful in the diagnosis of t...
Tendon aging is associated with an increasing prevalence of tendon injuries and/or chronic tendon diseases, such as tendinopathy, which affects approximately 25% of the adult population. Aged tendons are often characterized by a reduction in the numb...
With the degradation after aging and the destruction of high-intensity exercise, the frequency of tendon injury is also increasing, which will lead to serious pain and disability. Due to the structural specificity of the tendon tissue, the traditiona...
Tendon tissue connects muscle to bone and plays crucial roles in stress transfer. Tendon injury remains a significant clinical challenge due to its complicated biological structure and poor self-healing capacity. The treatments for tendon injury have...
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