It is important to understand that there are multiple bony cuts that are delicately balanced with each other so that the knee moves in a balanced fashion on both sides, and the patient does not feel insecure or unstable.
I have created my own surgical technique for knee replacement that intricately predicts the ligament balance and accommodates the bony cuts to fit the ligament envelope. I...
Knee replacements have been traditionally been done by bony alignment jigs. That is the surgeon uses either metal rods which are surgically inserted inside your femur or tibia and the angle of the bone cut is estimated by applying external jigs. This technique has stood the test of time for the last 30yrs.
However, the clever biomechanical engineers have in the last 15yrs developed...
