Knees
The knee is a joint that should not be neglected for your health.
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By: Raphaëlle Constant Follow
1 min
It is a joint to which we do not necessarily pay attention: the knee nevertheless plays an important role in our mobility.
Making the junction between the femur, the tibia and the kneecap, it supports the weight of the body by serving as a shock absorber.
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Sometimes painful, it can also be deformed or weakened by sprains.
Pathologies linked to the knee are numerous and affect all profiles of people.
What are the most common conditions?
How to take care of your knees?
Pr Alain Sautet,
Head of department, orthopedist, at
Saint-Antoine APHP hospital
in Paris, knee specialist.
Prof. Francis Berenbaum
, head of the rheumatology department at Saint-Antoine -APHP Hospital in Paris.
Professor at
Sorbonne University
.
Head of an
Inserm
team
dedicated to osteoarthritis
.
Dr Jean Emmanuel Yameogo
, resident in orthopedic and trauma surgery at
the Yalgado Ouedraogo University Hospital Center
in Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso
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