Its specific training plays an important role in maintaining patella position and limiting injuries to the knee.
Nevertheless, he regularly strengthened the muscles around his patella and was cleared to play after passing a battery of medical tests.
Due to tendinitis of the patella, he did not play in any matches with the senior team.
Some species don't have the patella, sometimes it is only a small extension of the cnemial crest.
It involves the patella sliding out of its position on the knee, most often laterally, and may be associated with extremely intense pain and swelling.
Two non-communicative bursae are located in front of the patella and below the patellar tendon, and others are sometimes present.
The most significant variations are between cemented and uncemented components and between resurfacing the patella or not.
Cavaliers can be subject to a genetic defect of the femur and knee called luxating patella.