Total Hip and Knee Replacement Treatment Programs: A Report Using Consensus

NIH Consensus Statement on total knee replacement.

OBJECTIVE To provide health care providers, patients, and the general public with a responsible assessment of currently available data regarding total knee replacement. PARTICIPANTS A non-DHHS, non-advocate 11-member panel representing the fields of orthopaedics, rheumatology, internal medicine, nursing, physical therapy, rehabilitation, biostatistics, epidemiology, and health services resear...

OPEN PATELLA PERIPROSTHETIC FRACTURE AFTER TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT: A CASE REPORT AND REVIEW OF LITERATURES

[SECOT consensus on thromboembolisms in knee and hip replacement surgery].

The purpose of this paper is to develop a professional consensus that proposes, in the light of the current scientific evidence and the clinical experience of an expert panel, some clinical recommendations directed at the Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery (OTS) specialist and with the aim of reducing the variability in the prophylactic management of venous thromboembolic disease in knee and hip ar...

Knee Kinematic Improvement After Total Knee Replacement Using a Simplified Quantitative Gait Analysis Method

Objectives: The aim of this study was to extract suitable spatiotemporal and kinematic parameters to determine how Total Knee Replacement (TKR) alters patients’ knee kinematics during gait, using a rapid and simplified quantitative two-dimensional gait analysis procedure. Methods: Two-dimensional kinematic gait pattern of 10 participants were collected before and after the TKR surgery,...

Total Hip and Knee Replacement in the Mature Athlete

CONTEXT Total hip replacement and total knee replacement are among the most successful and common surgical procedures in orthopaedics. These operations were traditionally reserved for older, sedentary patients. However, these are now being increasingly performed in patients expecting to return to athletic activities. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION The peer-reviewed medical literature was searched via P...