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See what happens during knee replacement surgery in this video and learn about the surgical procedure that helps relieve severe knee pain.
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Knee replacement surgery is an effective procedure to relieve pain, correct leg deformity, and help you resume everyday activities. In this video, Dr. Stuart Fischer, editor-in-chief of OrthoInfo , performs total knee replacement surgery.
This animation explains total knee replacement, a surgical procedure in which parts of an arthritic or damaged knee joint are removed and replaced with a metal, plastic or ceramic device called a prosthesis.
20 gru 2017 · Review a step-by-step description of a Total Knee Replacement Surgery and understand how an artificial knee can restore knee function.
When there is damage to the knee joint, these bones may scrape together abnormally and cause pain. During minimally invasive total knee replacement, your surgeon makes an incision to access your shinbone and thigh bone. Next, he or she removes a portion of the bones that make up the knee joint.
We put together several educational videos that give an overview of the preparations needed before hip replacement or knee replacement, as well as recommendations for safe and effective recovery after surgery.
A total knee replacement (also called total knee arthroplasty) might be more accurately termed a knee "resurfacing" because only the surfaces of the bones are replaced. There are four basic steps to a knee replacement procedure:
