Joint locking (medicine) symptom of: Locking of the knee happens during the last stages of extension when a person is standing up. Medial rotation of femur occurs as the space available at the lateral condyle of tibia is being used up by the lateral condyle of femur during extension. Therefore, lateral femoral condyle acted as an axis for medial femoral condyle to rotate backwards. This movement is aided by oblique pull of the ligaments of the knee joint and contraction of the quadriceps muscles. The ligaments are pulled taut when the knee joint is locked in place during standing. When the knee is
Fibrous joint joint, form the only non-sutured joints in the skull. Most sutures are named for the bones they articulate, but some have special names of their own. A syndesmosis is a slightly movable fibrous joint in which bones such as the tibia and fibula are joined together by connective tissue. Examples include the distal tibia fibular joint as well as the radioulnar joint. Injuries to the ankle syndesmosis are commonly known as a "high ankle sprain". Although the syndesmosis is a joint, in the literature the term syndesmotic injury is used to describe injury of the syndesmotic ligaments. It comes from