ArticleArthroscopy, sports medicine, and rehabilitation2021
Neuromapping of the Capsuloligamentous Knee Joint Structures.
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- Clarifying Proprioceptive Training: A Narrative Review.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2026Review
- Reframing myofascial pain syndrome: pathological disorder or adaptive protective response?Therapeutic advances in musculoskeletal disease · 2026Review
- The Presence of Mechanoreceptors and Cortical Connections Support a Proprioceptive Role for Knee Plicae.Arthroscopy, sports medicine, and rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Inhibition of knee joint sensory afferents alters covariation across strides between quadriceps muscles during locomotion.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2023Article
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Abstract
purposeTo investigate neuromuscular electromyographic response of the of the upper and lower leg muscles after the application of an intraoperative, isolated mechanical stimulus of the capsuloligamentous structures, including the anterior (ACL) and posterior cruciate ligaments (PCL), lateral (LM) and medial menisci (MM), plica mediopatellaris (PM), and Hoffa's fat pat (HFP).
methodsThe electromyographic response of the upper and lower leg muscles (M. rectus femoris; M. vastus medialis; M. semitendinosus; M. biceps femoris; M. gastrocnemius lateralis) of 15 male patients were measured after an isolated mechanical stimulus of the capsuloligamentous structures during an arthroscopic intervention using a customized intraoperative setup. Target parameters were the short (SLR; <30 milliseconds) and medium latency responses (MLR; >30 milliseconds) after the mechanically-induced trigger.
resultsThe ACL, PCL, LM, and MM displayed high interindividual reproducibility of >76%. The MM was the only structure indicating both an SLR and MLR for all muscles. Although signals could be detected, there was no reproducibility in electromyographic signal activation for the HFP. The most rapid MLR was observed for the PM (quadriceps: 37 milliseconds).
conclusionsEach stimulated structure displayed an individual MLR response, which allowed us to create neuromapping combining the anatomical and quantitative representations of the individual muscular activation patterns after isolated mechanical stimulation of the capsuloligamentous knee joint structures, corroborating our hypothesis. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Diagnostic - Level II.
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