Quadriceps tendon surgical repair Most people with quadriceps tendinitis don’t need surgery. But if nonsurgical treatments don’t work, or if your injury is severe, you might need surgical repair.

The quadriceps tendon helps you straighten your leg. Meanwhile, below the patella, you’ll find the patellar tendon. That connects to your tibia, a bone in your lower leg.

Most athletes try to avoid dwelling on serious injuries — especially ones that could lead to surgery, long recovery times and ...

To repair an ACL, surgeons typically borrow tissue from another part of the body, like a hamstring or quadriceps tendon, to reconstruct the ligament.

Achilles tendon: This tendon is in the back of the ankle and joins the foot to the leg. Flexor tendons: These run from the forearm to the hands, across the palms, and down the fingers and thumbs.

Traditional bone-patellar tendon-bone and hamstring tendon ACL grafts are not without limitations. A growing body of anatomic, biomechanical and clinical data has demonstrated the utility of ...

Five-time Masters champion Tiger Woods underwent successful surgery Tuesday to repair a ruptured Achilles tendon in his left leg, one month before the first major championship of the season.

Objectives: To ascertain whether detailed isokinetic knee muscle testing reflects the results of other functional measurements in footballers and to look for any correlations between quadriceps tendon ...