It also stabilizes your knee and ankle joints with the help of the fibula. Muscle attachment. The tibia also serves as a point of attachment for 11 muscles, as well as tendons and ligaments that ...

If the body weight is thrown backward at a time when the knee is bent, with the tibia pressing forward, the full force will be exerted against the attachment of the anterior cruciate ligament ...

The flat articular surface of the model tibial component lies below the ACL attachment line and above the PCL attachment line, giving a posterior slope 7° relative to the axis of the bone.

Figure 2. Preoperative MRI of the left knee shows a sagittal cut (a) and a coronal cut (b) that illustrate avulsion of the tibial attachment of the ACL with attached subchondral bone. The history ...

I drill the femoral and tibial tunnels independent of one another so that I can better reproduce these two different attachment sites of the ACL in the knee. Everyone’s knee is different and ...

This technique requires retraction of the pes mechanism (Figure 2) and dissection of the medial periosteal capsular ligamentous flap from the entire anteromedial, mid medial, and posteromedial ...

“The posterior tibialis is a muscle that originates on the back, or posterior, part of the tibia and fibula (your lower leg bones), up close to your knee,” explains Cathlin ...

Anterior tibial tendonitis is a type of ankle injury. The anterior tibial tendon lies at the front of the ankle and helps flex the foot upward. Injury to this tendon usually occurs due to overuse.

A tibial plateau fracture refers to a break or crack in the top of the shin bone at the knee. It involves the cartilage surface of the knee joint. This joint helps support your body weight ...

Tibial plateau fractures are rare, making up around 1% of all fracture injuries. Tibial plateau fractures usually result from severe trauma. But these fractures can also happen when you have ...