BACKGROUND Total hip or knee replacement is highly successful when judged by prosthesis-related outcomes. However, some people experience long-term pain. OBJECTIVES To review published studies in representative populations with total hip or knee replacement for the treatment of osteoarthritis reporting proportions of people by pain intensity. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE and EMBASE databases search...

OBJECTIVES Total knee replacement can be a successful operation for pain relief. However, 10-34% of patients experience chronic postsurgical pain. Our aim was to synthesise evidence on the effectiveness of applying predictive models to guide preventive treatment, and for interventions in the management of chronic pain after total knee replacement. SETTING We conducted a systematic review of r...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 10-year survival rates after unicompartmental knee replacement (UKR) have been up to 97% in single-center studies, but they have been as low as 80% in studies from arthroplasty registers. Few studies have evaluated short-term functional outcome and its improvement with time. We determined the time course of functional outcome as evaluated by the knee injury and osteoarthr...

Hip and knee replacements are some of the most frequently performed effective surgeries worldwide. The main indication for hip replacement (joint surgery) is osteoarthritis, which leads to reduced function quality life.

BACKGROUND Chronic pain after total knee replacement is common but remains poorly understood. Management options for patients with this condition are traditionally limited to pharmacological approaches. OBJECTIVE This article presents a case of using spinal cord stimulation in the management of chronic knee pain following total knee replacement. DESIGN Case report. SETTING Pain management...

A key goal of joint endoprosthesis is to become a full-featured functional and anatomical replacement. The joint damage may occur for several reasons primarily a disease of different nature and magnitude, resulting in gradual and irreversible changes and in an extreme solution in the implantation of artificial joints. However, there should be also mentioned accidents leading to joint destructio...