Table Of ContentEverything You Need to Know about Knee Injuries.
How to Treat Them. and How They Affect Your Life
THE
KNEE
INJURY
BIBLE
ROBERT F. LAPRADE. MD. PHD
LUKE O·BRIEN. PT. MPHTY (SPORTS). SCS
JDRGE CHAHLA. MD. PHD
NICHOLAS I. KENNEDY. MD
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LIFE
LONG
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CONTENTS
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Foreword by Joe Montana
Introduction
PART 1: Help! My Knee Is Not Working!
CHAPTER 1: How Did This Happen?
CHAPTER 2: What to Do Following a Knee Injury
CHAPTER 3: The Top Twenty-Five Knee Problems
Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Tear
Arthritis
Muscle Strain
Iliotibial (IT) Band Friction Syndrome
Anterior Knee Pain
Patellar Tendinopathy or Jumper’s Knee
Meniscus Tear
Medial Collateral Ligament (MCL) Tear
Cartilage Injury
Patella (Kneecap) Fracture
Tibial Plateau Fracture
Proximal Tibia Fracture
Distal Femoral Fracture
Posterior Cruciate Ligament (PCL) Tear
Fibular (Lateral) Collateral Ligament (FCL/LCL) and Posterolateral Corner
(PLC) Injury
Quadriceps Tendon Tear
Patellar Tendon Rupture
Knee Dislocation
Patellofemoral (Kneecap) Instability
Tibiofemoral Malalignment
Septic Arthritis
Inflammatory Arthritis
Proximal Tibiofibular Joint Instability
Osgood-Schlatter Disease
Osteochondritis Dissecans
PART 2: All About Surgery
CHAPTER 4: Should I Have Knee Surgery?
CHAPTER 5: The Presurgical Checklist and Why It Is So Extensive
CHAPTER 6: The Day of Surgery
CHAPTER 7: Commonly Prescribed Medications
PART 3: Getting Back to Awesome: Your Knee Rehab Plan
CHAPTER 8: Recovery Dos and Don’ts
CHAPTER 9: Ace Your Physical Therapy
CHAPTER 10: Lose Weight and Eat a Healing Diet
CHAPTER 11: Consider Injections to Relieve Symptoms
CHAPTER 12: Prevent Reinjury During Sports and Activities
Epilogue: Will My Knee Ever Be the Same Again?
Discover More
The authors would like to thank our families for
supporting us throughout the process of completing this
work. A special thank-you also goes out to Nicholas
Kennedy’s siblings, Mitchell and Julia Kennedy, who
supported the book through photography, feedback on
early drafts, and serving as sounding boards using their
personal experiences. We would also like to thank all the
teachers and mentors who have helped to educate,
inspire, and mold all the authors into the providers they
are today. Specifically, we would like to thank Dr. John
Feagin for his guidance and support throughout the
years. Lastly, we would like to thank all the patient
advocates who shared their stories for this book in the
hope that their stories could educate and motivate future
patients.
This book is dedicated to our patients as well as the many
patients who will read this book in the future. We hope the
information in this book will help them in their healing
process and even enrich their lives.
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FOREWORD
by Joe Montana
T
he sport of football has brought more into my life than I could have
ever imagined. A brotherhood of lifetime bonds, a strong work ethic, a chance
to see the world, and the opportunity to spend a career loving what I did. In
my seventeen-season NFL career, I played in hundreds of games, threw
thousands of passes, and was fortunate enough to compete on some of
football’s biggest stages.
But playing the sport I love for so many years came with a price. The
mileage I put in on the field was mileage that was taken from my post-
football body. When I stepped off the field for the last time, I did so thinking
that while my NFL career lay behind me, I had an entire active life ahead of
me. My body had other reckonings for me.
The time I thought I was getting back became time I spent in doctors’
offices: consultations, x-rays, surgeries, physical therapy. I’ve had elbow
surgery, three neck fusions, and half a dozen knee surgeries. I also have
arthritis in my elbows, hands, and knees. I’ve been in and out of a doctor’s
office enough times to have an honorary degree. Yet although I was fortunate
to have access to the world’s greatest in medicine, advanced tools, and
surgery methods, I still faced a fear of the unknown with each visit.
Hindsight being 20/20, knowledge is power. Early in my career, there was
so much I didn’t know—and still so much I don’t know. What allowed me to
be my best on field was the work I put in off-field: countless hours studying
tendencies, learning the intricacies of my craft, educating myself on strengths
and weaknesses of my opponents. Every big play, every single drive, every
pass thrown was rooted in months or years of preparation and education. The
more you know, the better primed you are to achieve your goals and succeed.
The same can be said for your knee: the more you know about it and its
relationship to the rest of the body, the better prepared you can be to recover,
and to stay healthy, strong, and without injury.
In The Knee Injury Bible, Dr. LaPrade, Dr. Chahla, Luke O’Brien, and Dr.
Kennedy have put together a book with that exact goal in mind: to educate
and empower the patient. From their combined fifty-plus years of experience
in sports medicine, they have written this book for you, beginning with injury
and ending with recovery and covering everything in between. Having also
been a knee patient himself, Dr. Kennedy offers further insight through the
eyes of someone who has been there.
A resource like this would have been incredibly helpful for me during my
own experiences with injury, and is a must-have for anyone with a knee
injury, whether fresh or a years-old disability.
