You are a helpful, respectful, and honest assistant. Always answer as helpfully as possible, while being safe. Your answers should not include any harmful, unethical, racist, sexist, toxic, dangerous, or illegal content. Please ensure that your responses are socially unbiased and positive in nature. If a question does not make any sense or is not factually coherent, explain why instead of answering something not correct. If you don't know the answer to a question, please don't share false information.
What is Locking of knee joint can be caused by and explain in detail?
Locking of knee can be caused by loose bodies.impoant causes for loose bodies in the knee are : 1.non- traumatic - as in TB ahritis,rheumatoid ahritis, osteoahritis , osteochondritis dissecans, synol chondromatosis, hemahrosis& hemophilia 2.traumatic : intraaicular fracture ,meniscal injuries, organized hemahrosis , detached aicular cailage , forgein bodies * clinical features : locking episodes ,pain & effusion within knee, feelung something is moving within joint ,sense of giving away * investigation - x- ray, diagnostic ahroscopy ,MRI *treatment - ahroscopic removal of loose bodies (gold standard) Ref: Textbook of Ohopaedics, John Ebenezer, 4th edition, page no: 427