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A 22 -year -old female patient arrives in the emergency department after a skin accident.
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She was going downhill quickly when she twisted felon reports hearing and feeling a pop in the right knee.
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The ed physician has diagnosed her with an acl tear and refers to her to the orthopedic surgeon for surgery.
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How is it positioned in relation to other knee ligaments? okay, so we're looking at the posterior portion of the knee here.
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So this is the femur.
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This is the tibia.
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And then we've got the fibula there.
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So looking, we're going to kind of go quick overview of the external ligaments.
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So first of all, you have the, in the posterior part of the knee, you have the rq8 popliteiteiteiteiteiteal ligament, which kind of makes a v.
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And then over that, you've got the oblique popliteal ligament, which kind of has a real fat.
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Portion here at the top and then kind of becomes more skinny and kind of curves around like that.
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And then moving medial to the knee, you've got the tibio collateral.
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And then moving just a little bit more anterior, you have the medial patello femoral ligament, which runs horizontal and attaches the patella to the femur.
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And then continuing to the anterior knee, you've got that patella bone and top and bottom of that is the patella ligament continuing a little bit more you've got another horizontal ligament which is the lateral patella femoral ligament connecting the patella and the femur the femur and then going to the lateral side of the knee you have the fibular collateral ligament which attaches the fibula to the femur and then just slightly posterior to that you have the the anterior lateral ligament...