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Medial plica irritation: diagnosis and treatment

Medial plica irritation of the knee is a very common source of anterior knee pain. Patients can complain of pain over the anteromedial aspect of their knees and describe episodes of crepitation, catching, and pseudo-locking events with activities. Patients commonly have pain on physical examination...

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Autores principales: Griffith, Chad J., LaPrade, Robert F.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Humana Press Inc 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2684145/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19468899
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12178-007-9006-z
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description Medial plica irritation of the knee is a very common source of anterior knee pain. Patients can complain of pain over the anteromedial aspect of their knees and describe episodes of crepitation, catching, and pseudo-locking events with activities. Patients commonly have pain on physical examination upon rolling the plica fold of tissue over the anteromedial aspect of their knees and often have tight hamstrings. The majority of the patients will respond well to a non-operative treatment program consisting of quadriceps strengthening along with concurrent hamstring stretching. In cases which do not respond initially to an exercise program, an intraarticular steroid injection may be indicated. In those few patients who do not respond to a non-operative treatment program, an arthroscopic resection of their medial plica may be indicated, especially in those cases where a shelf-like plica has been found to be causing damage to the articular cartilage of the medial femoral condyle.
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spelling pubmed-26841452009-05-20 Medial plica irritation: diagnosis and treatment Griffith, Chad J. LaPrade, Robert F. Curr Rev Musculoskelet Med Article Medial plica irritation of the knee is a very common source of anterior knee pain. Patients can complain of pain over the anteromedial aspect of their knees and describe episodes of crepitation, catching, and pseudo-locking events with activities. Patients commonly have pain on physical examination upon rolling the plica fold of tissue over the anteromedial aspect of their knees and often have tight hamstrings. The majority of the patients will respond well to a non-operative treatment program consisting of quadriceps strengthening along with concurrent hamstring stretching. In cases which do not respond initially to an exercise program, an intraarticular steroid injection may be indicated. In those few patients who do not respond to a non-operative treatment program, an arthroscopic resection of their medial plica may be indicated, especially in those cases where a shelf-like plica has been found to be causing damage to the articular cartilage of the medial femoral condyle. Humana Press Inc 2007-11-27 /pmc/articles/PMC2684145/ /pubmed/19468899 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12178-007-9006-z Text en © Humana Press 2007
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