A ligament is a short band of tough fibrous connective tissue composed mainly of long, stringy collagen molecules. Ligaments connect bones to bones in and around joints and limit the amount of mobility in that joint, or prevent certain movements altogether. There are four major knee ligaments; the anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments found deep […]
Commonly referred to as your ‘cartilage’, your knee meniscus is a piece of fibrocartilage that separates the thigh bone (femur) from your shin bone (tibia). Each knee joint has a medial (inside) meniscus and a lateral (outside) meniscus. The role of the meniscus is to assist with the rotational stability as well as acting as […]
The iliotibial band is a thick piece of connective tissue that runs parallel to your femur (thigh bone) from the outside of your hip to just below your knee. Pain is characteristically felt at the end of the IT band where it attaches to the outside edge of the knee. Iliotibial band syndrome (ITBS) has […]
