The body looks at this as toxic and if it gets absorbed, the liver deals with it mostly as a toxin rather than a nutrient. Eating the chalk will put a large quantity of this material in your body and is not a good idea at all.
This operation can be done either through the same incision as the medial patellofemoral ligament reconstruction or through a larger incision around the knee. It allows the patella to sit more centrally within its groove and not tilt as the patella engages in the trochlear groove.
Extension of the knee joint through the medial patellar retinaculum is vital to such movements as walking, running and kicking a ball. The medial patellar retinaculum is the branch of the tendon of insertion of the quadriceps femoris that crosses the knee on the medial side of the patella. Most of the fibers of the medial patellar retinaculum originate in the medial femoral region from the vastus medialis muscle, just superior to the patella....