A Histoarchitectural Approach to Skeletal Muscle Injury: Searching for a Common Nomenclature
Study Group of the Muscle and Tendon System from the Spanish Society of Sports Traumatology, Ramón Balius, Marc Blasi, Carles Pedret, Xavier Alomar, José Peña, José A. Vega, Ricard Pruna, Jordi Ardèvol, Guillermo Ramón Alvarez, Javier de la Fuente, Tomás Fernández-Jaén, Tero A.H. Järvinen, Gil Rodas
Abstract
In recent years, different classifications for muscle injuries have been proposed based on the topographic location of the injury within the bone-tendon-muscle chain. We hereby propose that in addition to the topographic classification of muscle injuries, a histoarchitectonic (description of the damage to connective tissue structures) definition of the injury be included within the nomenclature. Thus, the nomenclature should focus not only on the macroscopic anatomy but also on the histoarchitectonic features of the injury.