{"id":395,"date":"2016-02-19T16:04:18","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T16:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/katarzynapirog\/?page_id=395"},"modified":"2019-03-06T10:29:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T10:29:06","slug":"tendons-and-ligaments-linking-it-all-together","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/tendons-and-ligaments-linking-it-all-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Tendons and ligaments, linking it all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Tendons and ligaments are collagen rich connective tissues that link muscle to bone and bone to bone respectively. <strong>Tendon<\/strong> consists of densely packed bundles of fibrous collagen. It receives a relatively small blood supply in comparison to muscle and the bone and is characterised by high tensile strength and elasticity. <strong>Ligament<\/strong> has a similar anatomy to tendon, but collagen fibrils are fewer and more disorganised.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/katarzynapirog\/files\/2016\/02\/tendons-and-ligaments.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-397\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-397 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/katarzynapirog\/files\/2016\/02\/tendons-and-ligaments.jpg\" alt=\"tendons and ligaments\" width=\"2312\" height=\"938\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2016\/02\/tendons-and-ligaments.jpg 2312w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2016\/02\/tendons-and-ligaments-300x122.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2016\/02\/tendons-and-ligaments-768x312.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2016\/02\/tendons-and-ligaments-1024x415.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2312px) 100vw, 2312px\" \/><\/a><em>Exterior (left) and interior (right) tendons and ligaments of the knee joint. From Gray&#8217;s Anatomy 1918 (Bartleby Books: http:\/\/www.bartleby.com)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Tendon and ligament both have similar hierarchical structure, consisting of elements called <strong>fascicles<\/strong>, which are built of smaller basic tendon\/ligament fibrils and fibroblasts. The main component of the basic fibril is type I collagen. Both ligaments and tendons are surrounded by a sheath of transparent material called the synovial membrane, a delicate connective tissue layer secreting synovium, a viscous lubricating fluid.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/katarzynapirog\/files\/2016\/02\/tendon.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-396\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-396 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/katarzynapirog\/files\/2016\/02\/tendon.jpg\" alt=\"tendon\" width=\"938\" height=\"881\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2016\/02\/tendon.jpg 938w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2016\/02\/tendon-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/files\/2016\/02\/tendon-768x721.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 938px) 100vw, 938px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tendons and ligaments are collagen rich connective tissues that link muscle to bone and bone to bone respectively. Tendon consists of densely packed bundles of fibrous collagen. It receives a relatively small blood supply in comparison to muscle and the bone and is characterised by high tensile strength and elasticity. Ligament has a similar anatomy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/tendons-and-ligaments-linking-it-all-together\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tendons and ligaments, linking it all<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4483,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-395","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4483"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/395\/revisions\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/piroglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}