I'm not a medical person or anything...but it does fascinate me how so many of these surgeries can go on and hardly anyone stopped and though, wait, what's this thing doing here, I haven't heard about this?
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I haven't actually been inside a body (though I was just accepted to a medical school so I look forward to it), but from my graduate school anatomy classes and talking to people on interviews there is so much we are learning about the body still to this day. Even looking at a text book with pictures it is very easy to get lost. According to real doctors and other people who have done an anatomy lab, opening up a body is nothing like the pictures. I could see how its possible that something was maybe thought to be part of something else, but in reality is a completely separate entity.
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This isn't really a "new" discovery. I doubt anyone really cares so I won't go into too much detail unless people want, but doctors and anatomy teachers have known about the ligament for over 100 years, it just never had a decided upon name like the MCL and ACL. This study basically tried to get a concrete description of what the ligament connects and thus give it an appropriate name that the whole field can agree upon. I think the reason it has never been done is that it was never deemed to be a critical structure.
It's still important research and could potentially lead to advances in surgical technique because of how far the field has advanced, but it's not like surgeons have been missing this structure the whole time and we found the equivalent of an ACL that could be torned that no one has seen before.
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After reading the article, it sounds like the ligament is something that was identified by one person over 100 years ago, but largely ignored by the medical industry who continued to assume it was part of another piece of tissue, and that it wasn't until recently that some researchers have verified that it is, in fact, a distinct ligament unto itself.
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Interesting. I wonder how many people -- especially ballplayers who never seem to recover -- have been misdiagnosed.
I'm not a medical person or anything...but it does fascinate me how so many of these surgeries can go on and hardly anyone stopped and though, wait, what's this thing doing here, I haven't heard about this?
I haven't actually been inside a body (though I was just accepted to a medical school so I look forward to it), but from my graduate school anatomy classes and talking to people on interviews there is so much we are learning about the body still to this day. Even looking at a text book with pictures it is very easy to get lost. According to real doctors and other people who have done an anatomy lab, opening up a body is nothing like the pictures. I could see how its possible that something was maybe thought to be part of something else, but in reality is a completely separate entity.
But I thought this was 2014
This isn't really a "new" discovery. I doubt anyone really cares so I won't go into too much detail unless people want, but doctors and anatomy teachers have known about the ligament for over 100 years, it just never had a decided upon name like the MCL and ACL. This study basically tried to get a concrete description of what the ligament connects and thus give it an appropriate name that the whole field can agree upon. I think the reason it has never been done is that it was never deemed to be a critical structure.
It's still important research and could potentially lead to advances in surgical technique because of how far the field has advanced, but it's not like surgeons have been missing this structure the whole time and we found the equivalent of an ACL that could be torned that no one has seen before.
After reading the article, it sounds like the ligament is something that was identified by one person over 100 years ago, but largely ignored by the medical industry who continued to assume it was part of another piece of tissue, and that it wasn't until recently that some researchers have verified that it is, in fact, a distinct ligament unto itself.