Pretty amazing that a new ligament could be found in the human knee at this day and age!
http://www.sciencedaily.com/re.../11/131105081352.htm
Perhaps these injuries will have better outcomes for athletes in the future.
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I don't see how it's possible after doctors have been doing autopsies, cutting open bodies and literally dissecting a human body for probably several hundred years, that this could just now be discovered. Very strange. They do knee replacement surgeries and complete knee reconstructions, how could they not have seen this, but a doctor from 1879 knew about it. Very strange indeed. Hope it helps with future surgeries, but hard to understand how this can be newly discovered.
Just read one person state that it may actually not be too "new" and that it was a media frenzy because well that's what the media does. Speculation that it was researched in the 70's and has been named multiple things in the process which may show it really is not relevant in the big picture. We have numerous ligaments throughout our body that are simply there and don't have actual names involved. We have ligaments in our feet that are simply there, but when we injure them we don't call them anything specific. We just call it a "ligament sprain."
I'll be interested to see where this goes from here...