http://www.kneeguru.co.uk/KNEEnotes/taxonomy/term/513 The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://www.kneeguru.co.uk/KNEEnotes/node/1800 <h1>The patella - important anatomical relationships</h1> <p><img src="../../../../assets/images/rectus-femoris02a.jpg" alt="rectus femoris muscle" align="right" vspace="10" width="227" height="288" hspace="35" /> <p>The patella is a bone within a tendon - the tendon of the long quadriceps muscle that spans the region from the hip to the shinbone. The illustration on the right shows one part of the quadriceps muscle (the rectur femoris part) and you can see the patella within its tendon just at the knee joint.</p> <p><a href="http://www.kneeguru.co.uk/KNEEnotes/node/1800">read more</a></p> http://www.kneeguru.co.uk/KNEEnotes/node/1800#comments extensor mechanism fat pad MPFL patellar tendon q angle quads tendon rectus femoris tibial tubercle VMO Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:24:14 -0700 admin 1800 at http://www.kneeguru.co.uk/KNEEnotes http://www.kneeguru.co.uk/KNEEnotes/node/1722 <p>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 extensor mechanism falls into that group.</p> extensor mechanism patella Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:01:01 -0700 admin 1722 at http://www.kneeguru.co.uk/KNEEnotes http://www.kneeguru.co.uk/KNEEnotes/extensor-mechanism <p><a href="http://www.kneeguru.co.uk/KNEEnotes/extensor-mechanism">read more</a></p> http://www.kneeguru.co.uk/KNEEnotes/extensor-mechanism#comments extensor mechanism Sun, 27 Apr 2008 06:49:15 -0700 admin 1305 at http://www.kneeguru.co.uk/KNEEnotes