Abstracts tagged "cartilage and exercise"

Abstract Number: 240 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Longitudinal Femorotibial Cartilage Thickness Increase In Young Athletes At The End Of Adolescence
Felix Eckstein¹, Heide Boeth², Gerd Diederichs³, Wolfgang Wirth¹, Martin Hudelmaier⁴, Sebastian Cotofana⁵ and Georg Duda⁶, ¹Anatomy & Musculoskeletal Research, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria, ²Center for Sports Science and Sports Medicine, Julius Wolff Institute, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ³Department of Radiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ⁴Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria, ⁵Musculoskeletal Anatomy, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria, ⁶Julius Wolff Institute, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Background/Purpose: Anterior or posterior cruciate ligament (ACL/PCL) ruptures are thought to lead to early knee osteoarthritis (KOA) and thus considered scientifically valuable “models” of pre-radiographic…