LEECH ON THE DEGENERATIVE KNEE

Degenerative Arthritis of the Knee

An increased life expectancy and heightened awareness of the importance of maintaining physical fitness throughout adulthood equal more miles on knees.1-5 There are variations in the patient population with articular surface changes: age, physical demands, goals, and expectations. In the active individual, how do we keep these knees natural, painless, and moving? The wand of the arthroscope doe...

Degenerative changes in the knee after meniscectomy.

Cartilage repair in the degenerative ageing knee

Background and purpose - Cartilage damage can develop due to trauma, resulting in focal chondral or osteochondral defects, or as more diffuse loss of cartilage in a generalized organ disease such as osteoarthritis. A loss of cartilage function and quality is also seen with increasing age. There is a spectrum of diseases ranging from focal cartilage defects with healthy surrounding cartilage to ...

The knee meniscus: management of traumatic tears and degenerative lesions

Meniscectomy is one of the most popular orthopaedic procedures, but long-term results are not entirely satisfactory and the concept of meniscal preservation has therefore progressed over the years. However, the meniscectomy rate remains too high even though robust scientific publications indicate the value of meniscal repair or non-removal in traumatic tears and non-operative treatment rather t...

Stress radiography in degenerative arthritis of the knee.

The accurate assessment of compartmental involvement in degenerative arthritis of the knee is important when planning operative treatment. Standard radiographic techniques often fail to define the degree of involvement of the less affected tibiofemoral compartment. The use of stress radiography in the preoperative assessment of 30 knees with degenerative arthritis is described and the radiograp...