University of Michigan: Walk This Way - Link Established Between Altered Gait After ACL Injury and Knee Osteoarthritis
January 08, 2021
January 08, 2021
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Jan. 8 (TNSJou) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release:
Almost half of patients who undergo surgery to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament will develop knee osteoarthritis.
Rehabilitation specialists and researchers have long hypothesized that ACL injury results in gait changes that contribute to the onset of osteoarthritis, said Lindsey Lepley, assistant professor of kinesiology at the University of Michigan. A recent . . .
Almost half of patients who undergo surgery to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament will develop knee osteoarthritis.
Rehabilitation specialists and researchers have long hypothesized that ACL injury results in gait changes that contribute to the onset of osteoarthritis, said Lindsey Lepley, assistant professor of kinesiology at the University of Michigan. A recent . . .