A painful knee can severely affect your ability to lead a full active life. Over the last twenty five years, major advancements in artificial knee replacement have improved the outcome of the surgery greatly. This Patient's Guide discusses the Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment, The Artificial Knee, The Operation, Rehabilitation, and Complications.
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INSTALLING NEW KNEES
a giant step toward recovering lost mobility
"Can you come in Monday morning?" It was a Thursday in January 1997, a first consultation, and, apparently, the orthopaedic surgeon wanted to remove her left knee and replace it with an artificial one in three days' time.
Nancy Cheung recalls feeling...
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Definition
Knee replacement is a procedure in which the surgeon removes damaged or diseased parts of the patient's knee joint and replaces them with new artificial parts. The operation itself is called knee arthroplasty. Arthroplasty comes from two Greek words, arthros or joint and plassein, "to form or shape." The artificial...
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Knee revision surgery, which is also known as revision total knee arthroplasty, is a procedure in which the surgeon removes a previously implanted artificial knee joint, or prosthesis, and replaces it with a new prosthesis. Knee revision surgery may also involve the use of bone grafts. The bone graft may...
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Total Knee Replacement
Advanced osteoarthritis (OA) is by far the main reason why people need total knee replacement surgery. Patients tend to be mostly between ages 55 and 75. Different types of inflammatory arthritis - particularly rheumatoid arthritis - can also severely damage knee cartilage and bone, as a result...
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Everything a patient with knee arthritis needs to know about the nature of the disease, including surgical and non-surgical treatment options, total knee replacement, the pros and cons, complications of treatment, the implant design materials, and long te
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Everything a patient with knee arthritis needs to know about the nature of the disease, including surgical and non-surgical treatment options, total knee replacement, the pros and cons, complications of treatment, the implant design materials, and long te
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Everything a patient with knee arthritis needs to know about the nature of the disease, including surgical and non-surgical treatment options, total knee replacement, the pros and cons, complications of treatment, the implant design materials, and long te
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Everything a patient with knee arthritis needs to know about the nature of the disease, including surgical and non-surgical treatment options, total knee replacement, the pros and cons, complications of treatment, the implant design materials, and long te
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Everything a patient with knee arthritis needs to know about the nature of the disease, including surgical and non-surgical treatment options, total knee replacement, the pros and cons, complications of treatment, the implant design materials, and long te
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Everything a patient with knee arthritis needs to know about the nature of the disease, including surgical and non-surgical treatment options, total knee replacement, the pros and cons, complications of treatment, the implant design materials, and long te
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