unhappy triad
terrible triad
blown knee

Treatment of the unhappy triad usually requires surgery.

Skeletal components involved in the unhappy triad include:

Originally the "unhappy triad" included the medial meniscus and not the lateral meniscus.

The Unhappy Triad is a set of commonly co-occurring knee injuries which includes injury to the medial meniscus.

Unhappy triad, tearing of one or both of the cruciate ligaments, along with collateral ligament damage and meniscal tear(s)

The unhappy triad occurs due to a lateral blow to the knee causing a rupture in the anterior cruciate ligament, medial collateral ligament,and meniscus.

Insufficient treatment of the "unhappy triad" would downgrade him from the prospect of being the game's greatest performer to playing nearly all of his remaining 17 years on one knee.

A tear of the medial meniscus can occur as part of the unhappy triad, together with a tear of the anterior cruciate ligament and medial collateral ligament.

An unhappy triad (or terrible triad, "horrible triangle", O'Donoghue's triad or a "blown knee") is an injury to the anterior cruciate ligament, medial collateral ligament, and the meniscus.

The "unhappy triad" is a classic example, in which the ACL is torn at the same time as the MCL and the medial meniscus (one of the shock-absorbing cartilages in the knee).

The classic "unhappy triad" was a rare finding (8/100) and Fridén T, Erlandsson T, Zätterström R, Lindstrand A, and Moritz U. suggest that this entity should be replaced by the "unhappy compression injury".

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Tearing the anterior cruciate ligament can sometimes be part of a knee injury known as "the terrible triad".

In 1991, Shelbourne and Nitz questioned the validity of O'Donoghue's terrible triad study.

However, since then, this term and the term "terrible triad" have also been used to describe several other combinations of joint injuries, including those of the elbow and shoulder.

The term "terrible triad" is also sometimes used in the popular press to describe conditions relating to pain, or even to refer to the MacDonald triad of sociopathic behavior.

From this study, it was concluded that the structures involved in the terrible triad were the anterior cruciate ligament, medial collateral ligament, and the lateral (not medial) meniscus.

Treatment of knee injuries has evolved remarkably since the 1950's, when doctors first identified "the terrible triad," a combination of ligaments and cartilage often shredded as a result of football clipping injuries.

An unhappy triad (or terrible triad, "horrible triangle", O'Donoghue's triad or a "blown knee") is an injury to the anterior cruciate ligament, medial collateral ligament, and the meniscus.

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But when a blown knee cut short what might have been a brilliant football career, he exhibited toughness of character.

He earned an athletic scholarship to Stanford, but a blown knee ended a football career and his free ride.

During the filming of the show, Williams sustained some legitimate injuries, including a blown knee and a cut that required 39 stitches.

They drafted Cadillac Williams, only to run him into the ground his first 5 games of his career, then blown knees.

A typical surgery for a blown knee includes:

His NFL career ended with a blown knee against the Buffalo Bills.

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He also isn't above locking the trainer's door and injecting enough pain killer into a badly blown knee to get a star back in the game regardless of the consequences.

It was the very picture of mechanized death, even if a thin stream of oil was leaking from a blown knee seal, leaving oily footprints in its wake.

Meditation had worked for Elizabeth in the hospital, after her skiing accident, while she was recovering from the blown knee and the spiral fracture in her leg and, later, from the pain of massive plastic surgery.

An unhappy triad (or terrible triad, "horrible triangle", O'Donoghue's triad or a "blown knee") is an injury to the anterior cruciate ligament, medial collateral ligament, and the meniscus.