LAMECH BOGONKO FRANCIS

This article is to give my followers, sports medics and sports men involved in high performance sport training just to give them an insight on anatomy, causes, prevention and treatment of knee injuries encountered during contact sport. There are four bones around the area of the knee joint: the thigh bone (femur), the main shin bone (tibia), the outer shin bone (fibula) and the knee cap (patella). But the main movements of the knee joint are between the femur, the tibia and the patella. Tough connective tissue (articular cartilage) lines the ends of the tibia and femur and the back of the patella around the knee joint. The articular cartilage reduces friction between the bones of the knee joint and helps smooth movement between them. Each knee joint also contains an inner and outer meniscus (a medial and lateral meniscus). These are thick rubbery pads of cartilage tissue. They are C-shaped and become thinner towards the middle of the joint. The menisci cartilages sit