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Posterior cruciate ligament injury, a Common card
The function of the posterior cruciate ligament is to prevent the femur from sliding off the anterior edge of the tibia and to prevent the tibia from displacing posterior to the femur.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 66
- Power
- 132
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 11,000
Ranked #1,992 of the 2,999 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Common causes of PCL injuries are direct blows to the flexed knee, such as the knee hitting the dashboard in a car accident or falling hard on the knee, both instances displacing the tibia posterior to the femur.
- Surgery to repair the posterior cruciate ligament is controversial due to its placement and technical difficulty.
- The posterior drawer test is one of the tests used by doctors and physiotherapists to detect injury to the PCL.
Why it is Common
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Text : Wikipedia, Posterior cruciate ligament injury (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Henry Vandyke Carter, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
