Summary: cruciate comes from. There is both an anterior and a posterior cruciate ligament (PCL). Both of these ligaments function to stabilize your knee from front-to-back. In medical terms, the ACL is the primary restraint to anterior displacement of the tibia on the femur. Translation in plain English, that when the ACL is injured or torn the shinbone can then
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