Sentences with phrase «tibial crest»

Determine if tibial crest transposition is indicated and to perform the procedure (including a few tricks not shown in any textbooks!).

This problem is primarily characterized as pain and tenderness when running, along the posteromedial tibial crest, where deep flexor muscles attach to the tibia.

Tibial crest surgery is the most involved, in which the bony protrusion of the tibia is removed and reattached in another location on the bone.

If that will not be sufficient, the surgeon may move the point where the patella's ligament attaches to the tibia (tibial crest transposition).

deviation of the tibial crest, the bony prominence onto which the patella tendon attaches below the knee

The patellar tendon attaches on the tibial crest, a bony prominence located on the tibia (shin bone), just below the knee.

Their medical names include medial release, lateral imbrication, trochleoplasty, tibial crest transposition, and derotational suture replacement.

The patellar ligament attaches to a prominence on the bone below the knee (tibia) called the tibial crest.

The three common surgical procedures are described as follows; Tibial Crest Transposition (TCT).

If the problem is obvious in a very young puppy (less than four months) we will sometimes do surgery because at this age it is unusual to have to relocate the tibial crest and we can still cut through the bone (the femur) to remodel it with a scalpel and I am more comfortable with a scalpel than with bone saws.

Other dogs require deepening of the patellar groove and some require deeping of the groove, reshaping of the patella and repositioning of the tibial crest (breaking the tibia bone where the patellar ligament attaches and moving it to allow a straighter course for the patella).

If you are unsure if your pet's knee requires bone rotation for alignment (medically called «tibial crest transposition»), you can ask your veterinarian if they can palpate the alignment of the tibial crest or take an x-ray with the knees perfectly straight up and down to see if the bones are aligned.

The tibial crest may be deviated as much as 90 degrees from its normal position.

Grade 3: The patella will be permanently luxated along with tibial torsion and deviation of the tibial crest as much as 50 degrees from its normal plane.

There will be only minimal lateral deviation of the tibial crest and patella and very slight rotation of the tibia.

This is done by cutting and repositioning the tibial crest where the patellar ligament attaches and implanting a titanium or steel «cage,» «fork,» and plate as well as bone grafts to stabilize the new angle.

Nylon monofilament sutures are then looped behind the fabella bones adjacent to the femur, passed through a hole drilled in the tibial crest, and secured to the tag end using crimp sleeves or surgeon's knots.

This happens because the joint groove is too shallow, the joint capsule is lax or the tibial crest is pulling the patella off to one side because it is not in a straight line.

A range of surgical procedures are used to correct patellar luxation, they involve deepening the groove (sulcoplasty or trochleoplasty), tightening the joint capsule on the luxating side (joint capsule imbrication) or loosening the joint capsule or the non-luxating side (desmotomy) and moving the tibial crest to straighten the patellar ligament (tibial crest transposition).

Grade 4 luxations require cutting and moving of bone (tibial crest transpositions).