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Why The Human Knee Is A Design Disaster - Cheddar Explores

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Millions deal with knee problems every year. From elite athletes tearing their ACLs to senior citizens with chronic knee pain, there is clearly something error prone about the design of the human knee. It all comes down to a potent mix of evolutionary shortcomings and the stresses of modern life.

Further reading:

US National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health

Mayo Clinic

National Geographic

Harvard Medical School

Human Errors by Nathan Lents

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Smithsonian Magazine

BBC

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Scientific American

The Perils of Being Bipedal, Bruce Latimer

The Evolution of the Human Pelvis, Laura Tobias Gruss and Daniel Schmitt

Our World in Data, University of Oxford

Matthews Journal of Orthopedics

Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine

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