Patella Dislocation
Ashley Groninga
PET 110
Mrs. Vos Tulp
Patella Dislocation
11/20/14
On August 30, 2009, Arizona’s closer Chad Qualls had a serious injury on the game’s final pitch. Qualls managed to dislocate his left knee cap, while deflecting the soft liner with his glove to the short stop. While he was doing that, he twisted his body awkwardly. Arizona’s manager, A.J. Hinch said that you could see the dislocation. “The trainer put the knee cap back in place, but now we’ll just have to wait and see how much damage there was.” Knee cap dislocations don’t just happen in baseball. They are seen all over the sports world, like basketball, field hockey, ice hockey, etc. It’s very scary when it happens, you go into a sudden shock and it is a lot of pain, but if you know what to do when it happens, it will be a lot easier to deal with. Knowing how it happens, what the symptoms are, how to treat it when it happens, the surgery and physical therapy afterwards, and how to protect it and prevent it from happening again, will make it easier to deal with.
What happens when you are during the game and you feel that sudden pop in your knee and you go straight down so fast and all you feel is pain in your knee? There is a possibility that you dislocated your patella. What that means is, your patella sits in a groove at the end of the femur where it meets the tibia. The patella is connected by the patellar tendon, which is connected to the tibia, and the quadriceps tendon, which is connected to the femur. What usually happens is the patella slips to the outside of the knee, but sometimes, it can go either up or down, depending on how you sustained the injury. How the patella gets dislocated could be from a sudden change in direction with the knee is planted, a direct impact that knocks the patella out of joint, a twisting motion of the knee or ankle, or a sudden lateral cut. The dislocated patella usually only happens to younger athletes between the ages of 10-17, but can happen to
PET 110
Mrs. Vos Tulp
Patella Dislocation
11/20/14
On August 30, 2009, Arizona’s closer Chad Qualls had a serious injury on the game’s final pitch. Qualls managed to dislocate his left knee cap, while deflecting the soft liner with his glove to the short stop. While he was doing that, he twisted his body awkwardly. Arizona’s manager, A.J. Hinch said that you could see the dislocation. “The trainer put the knee cap back in place, but now we’ll just have to wait and see how much damage there was.” Knee cap dislocations don’t just happen in baseball. They are seen all over the sports world, like basketball, field hockey, ice hockey, etc. It’s very scary when it happens, you go into a sudden shock and it is a lot of pain, but if you know what to do when it happens, it will be a lot easier to deal with. Knowing how it happens, what the symptoms are, how to treat it when it happens, the surgery and physical therapy afterwards, and how to protect it and prevent it from happening again, will make it easier to deal with.
What happens when you are during the game and you feel that sudden pop in your knee and you go straight down so fast and all you feel is pain in your knee? There is a possibility that you dislocated your patella. What that means is, your patella sits in a groove at the end of the femur where it meets the tibia. The patella is connected by the patellar tendon, which is connected to the tibia, and the quadriceps tendon, which is connected to the femur. What usually happens is the patella slips to the outside of the knee, but sometimes, it can go either up or down, depending on how you sustained the injury. How the patella gets dislocated could be from a sudden change in direction with the knee is planted, a direct impact that knocks the patella out of joint, a twisting motion of the knee or ankle, or a sudden lateral cut. The dislocated patella usually only happens to younger athletes between the ages of 10-17, but can happen to
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