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Hendricks, who had been battling patella tendonitis, has suffered further complications of an unclear nature and will miss at least this weekend’s Ivy League series at Brown and next weekend’s games against Dartmouth, in addition to today’s Beanpot Championship game. Hendricks did not play yesterday...
According to Walsh, Hendricks has been battling patella tendonitis for a while, but he had never been this badly hobbled...
...been riding the bike and not running and getting through it,” Walsh said. “He’s usually okay in a day or two, but we might have to sit him for a little while. Hopefully that’s all that is, patella tendinitis...
...called Cherry once I found out she had fractured her patella again this year,” Coach Allard said. “We found out two days before we were to leave for our trip to North Carolina. I asked her whether she wanted to travel and she said ‘Yes, I want to do whatever I can.’ I never questioned whether she would quit at that point. I knew she was committed until...
...bone--is broader in humans than it is in apes, which improves balance. The human knee is specialized for walking upright too: to compensate for the thighbone's being at an angle, there's a lump, or groove, at the end of the femur that prevents the patella from sliding off the joint. "A chimp doesn't have this groove because there is no angulation between the hip and the knee," Lovejoy says. "This change says you're a biped...