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One of the questions emergency room doctors face when they see patients with knee injuries is whether or not to order an X-ray. This paper published by the AAFP explains the Pittsburgh Knee Rule and compares it to the Ottawa Knee Rule for deciding on X-ray in the emergency department.

If any readers are interested in knowing their own knee scores using a variety of scoring systems, click this link. You can take the test, see your score and print out the results to compare with future tests.

Previous blogs have discussed the patella as a sesamoid bone and on the patella as part of the extensor mechanism.

I mentioned there that the patella is a bone that exists within the...

There are quite a lot of medical words that need to be absorbed before one can confidently talk about the patella and its problems, and the...

The patella (kneecap) is a 'sesamoid bone'. A sesamoid bone is a bone that develops in a muscle tendon...

The back of the knee is called the 'popliteal' region of the knee. The depression in the middle of the back of the knee is called the 'popliteal fossa'.

This illustration of the back of the knee shows the popliteus muscle...

This very sophisticated discussion on the bulletin board will be of interest to readers who want to know what difference there is in outcome between ACI and...