KNEE CONDITIONS

For some individuals with knee osteoarthritis, a partial knee replacement is a viable option to total knee replacement. When the damage is limited to a single compartment of the knee, this operation can be performed. Only the damaged section of the knee cartilage is replaced with a prosthesis in a partial knee replacement.

Unicondylar knee replacement, also known as a partial knee replacement, is an option to total knee replacement for individuals who have osteoarthritis in only one compartment of the knee joint. Knee replacement surgery was often thought to be only for the elderly.

You may have knee osteoarthritis if your stiff, creaking knee joints maes it difficult  for you to walk or sit. Schedule an appointment right now if you feel stiffness or pain around your kneecaps.  Getting yourself examined by a professional is better than suffering from the pain as  Patellofemoral arthritis is a prevalent cause of severe knee pain.

A cartilage transplant, also known as a cartilage cell or chondrocyte transplant, is a new surgical method that involves repairing cartilage damage with cartilage cells taken from the patient’s own body. Patients who benefit from cartilage regeneration with autologous cartilage transplantation can enjoy something that no previous generation has been able to do: improved agility, flexibility, and overall knee performance.

Damage to joint (articular) cartilage (chondral lesions) or both the cartilage and the underlying bone (osteochondral lesions) does not heal on its own, resulting in joint pain and impaired function. Total knee replacement is more common in patients over the age of 60 who have osteoarthritis. Younger people, on the other hand, have a problem since metallic resurfacing has a short lifespan and invasive revision surgery is frequently required in young patients.

Meniscal transplant surgery is a procedure in which a cadaver donor meniscus is used to replace a missing or damaged meniscus. The procedure is normally performed under general anaesthesia. On either side of your knee, there are two wedge-shaped sections of cartilage.

High Tibial Osteotomy (HTO) is a surgical treatment used to address angular abnormalities in the knee and prevent unicompartmental osteoarthritis from developing or progressing.

It is commonly used to treat varus malformations in children, but it can also be used to treat valgus deformities.

One of the procedures used to treat osteochondral defects is mosaicplasty (Mosaic grafting). It requires extracting osteochondral grafts from the joint’s non-articular areas and inserting them into the defect. Multiple osteochondral plugs are collected with a cylindrical cutting device from a non-articulating portion of the joint surface and used to fill an articular cartilage deficiency in a one-stage process.

A stem cell transplant involves transferring healthy stem cells from one person’s blood or bone marrow to another person, ideally a close family member with the same or comparable tissue type. An allogeneic transfer is what is alluded to for  autologous transfer.

Arthroscopy is a surgical procedure that allows orthopedic surgeons to see into a joint and fix abnormalities there. An orthopedic surgeon creates a small incision in the patient’s skin and inserts pencil-sized equipment with a small lens and lighting system to magnify and illuminate the structures inside the joint.

One of the most common consequences after trauma and/or surgery for femoral fractures is knee stiffness, which is difficult to manage. Stiffness in extension is more common, and intensive physiotherapy can help. Quadricepsplasty is recommended if the condition does not improve.

The presence of benign synovial diseases in general orthopaedic offices is not uncommon. The general nature of the symptoms makes diagnosis difficult. Synovial enchondromatosis, pigmented villonodular synovitis, synovial hemangioma, and lipoma arborescens all have symptoms that are similar to each other and  also to the other  more prevalent joint illnesses, making diagnosis challenging. Timely diagnosis and treatment can minimize disease and resulting dysfunction.

While most congenital abnormalities, or deformities, can be repaired without surgery, severe congenital abnormalities, or deformities, may require surgical therapy to achieve adequate realignment. Patients with significant bowlegs or knock-knees are often the best candidates for guided growth surgery.