Arthroscopic surgery:
A number of knee symptoms, which remain unexplained
in the past can be now diagnosed by arthroscopy.
Almost all corrective surgery on the knee can be
done arthroscopically. This means less cutting &
faster recovery.
Knee realignment surgery
for knock-knees & bow legs: Knock knees and
bow legs cause rapid degeneration of the knee.
Conventionally, its correction is done by open
surgery. Knock knees can be corrected now minimally
invasive (one-stitch) technique. This means no
unsightly scar. Bowlegs in elderly people can
be corrected surgically by methods with permits
quick mobility without plaster application.
Knee replacement: The
knee replacement operation has undergone tremendous
improvement. It has now come to be not replacing
the whole knee in that sense but only recapping
the bone ends. Current knee components have a
mobile-bearing, which means the plastic insert
in between the two caps moves and permits extra
mobility. The knee replacement operations are
now done by minimal invasive techniques which
help in faster recovery.
Unicondylar replacement
or partial replacement: Not always does one need
to replace the whole knee. The recent trend is
to replace (cap) only the damaged part. This is
called unicondylar replacement or partial knee
replacement. It is almost one-third of the conventional
knee replacement operation by way of length of
the cut, recovery time etc. and gives as good
results. It is only done in selective cases where
only a part of the is damaged.
Cartilage transplantation,
meniscus transplantation are some other upcoming
areas.
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