Dr Thomas Smallman is a knee surgeon with a military background, and his work has extensively involved the management of patients with pain in the front of the knee.
In this course Dr Smallman explains how his clinical experience and subsequent research has led him to point a finger at a structure in the knee - the infrapatellar plica - as a potential cause of anterior knee pain, and he highlights its generally unappreciated intimate functional relationship to the infrapatellar fat pad.
The course consists of:
- INTRODUCTION: Anterior Knee Pain - a symptom complex
- INTRODUCTION: Why is Anterior Knee Pain such a problem?
- CLINICAL CASES - Case 1
- CLINICAL CASES - Case 2
- CLINICAL CASES - Case 3
- CLINICAL CASES - Case 4
- CLINICAL CASES - Case 5
- BACKGROUND ANATOMY - Anterior compartment of the knee
- BACKGROUND ANATOMY - The Fat Pad
- BACKGROUND ANATOMY - The Infrapatellar Plica
- BACKGROUND ANATOMY - how the fat pad and infrapatellar plica form
- BACKGROUND PHYSIOLOGY - Kinematics of the knee
- BACKGROUND PHYSIOLOGY - Knee pain in general
- TAKEHOME MESSAGE - The surgical technique of Untethering the Fat Pad
Dr Thomas Smallman
Knee Surgeon
Dr Smallman is a board-certified orthopaedic surgeon with special expertise in the diagnosis and treatment of ...read more
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