Quadriceps activation failure . Failure of the upper leg muscles (musculus quadriceps femoris). By this we mean the inability to consciously tighten and relax the quadriceps. This leads to not being able (or not enough) to actively engage your knee and...
Stretch limitation after knee surgery. We often see a limitation in the extension of the knee after knee surgery. We can distinguish two reasons by which we can explain why a knee may be unable to stretch after injury or surgery. The least...
It's that time again, the clock has moved, the days are getting colder.... Besides hot chocolate and wood-burning stoves, for a large part of the Netherlands this also means that the winter sports season is upon us again! Did you know that every year there are still about 850.000/900.000 Dutch...
When suffering an anterior cruciate ligament injury, we frequently also see damage to the meniscus (shock absorber in the knee). In some cases, this is evident even before surgery begins by, for example, recognizable symptoms or through attachment to the...
With a runners knee, symptoms are experienced on the outside of the knee due to irritation of a tendon, namely the tractus iliotibialis. In addition to pain, there may also be stiffness. Thus, we speak of a tendon injury. Often this is the result ...
If you have had surgery on your knee, you obviously want to recover as soon as possible. An important part of this is to regain mobility. This means being allowed and able to take support on the leg and having control over what the leg...
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