"Grade 1 and 2 injuries have usually favourable outcomes with a return to work/return to sport as early as 10-20 days post-injury 1. Most grade 3 injuries (>75%) are associated with other ligamentous injuries, with anterior cruciate ligament injury being the most common and therefore might need different management. But even in combined anterior cruciate/medial collateral ligament injuries, ACL reconstruction after conservative medial collateral ligament injury management seems to be a widely accepted method 6,7. Surgical repair should be considered in chronic medial collateral ligament tears, bony avulsion injuries, and Stener-like lesions of the medial collateral ligament 1,8."
"Stener-like lesion of the superficial medial collateral ligament in case of distal injury 11"
"O'Donoghue unhappy triad"
"Pellegrini-Stieda lesion"
"Grade 1 and 2 injuries have usually favourable outcomes with a return to work/return to sport as early as 10-20 days post-injury 1. Most grade 3 injuries (>75%) are associated with other ligamentous injuries, with anterior cruciate ligament injury being the most common and therefore might need different management. But even in combined anterior cruciate/medial collateral ligament injuries, ACL reconstruction after conservative medial collateral ligament injury management seems to be a widely accepted method 6,7. Surgical repair should be considered in chronic medial collateral ligament tears, bony avulsion injuries, and Stener-like lesions of the medial collateral ligament 1,8."
Expected headings
"Mechanism"
"Associations"
"Classification"
"Plain radiograph / CT"
"Medial collateral ligament injuries of the knee comprise sprains, partial and complete tears. Medial collateral ligament injuries are one of the most common ligamentous injuries of the knee."
"Injury of the deep portions of the medial collateral ligament is evident as high-signal intensity, swelling and discontinuity of the medial meniscofemoral and meniscotibial ligaments or an avulsion injury of the meniscotibial ligament (reverse Segond fracture)."