Even when knee replacement surgery is successful, stiffness in the knee joint can remain. People with a stiff knee after surgery may be unable to fully straighten the leg, to bend the knee, or both.

One study on long-term outcomes of a commonly used knee and hip ... replacement should be to achieve several decades of a functioning knee. You should remember that while some patients may have knee ...

When performing a knee replacement surgery or total knee arthroplasty, doctors traditionally try to align the hip, knee, and ankle in a straight line, forming a neutral alignment, rather than ...

‘If I’d known there was a risk of feeling worse after the surgery, then I’d never have had it done.’ Around 100,000 people (mostly aged between 60 and 80) undergo hip replacement surgery ...

The Adult Reconstructive Surgery Fellowship offers comprehensive training in joint replacement surgery, derived from more than 12,000 yearly primary and revision hip and knee replacements. Extensive ...

The Hip Preservation Fellowship offers an extensive and well-rounded clinical experience ... open and arthroscopic surgical skills, and computer-assisted surgery techniques. Dedicated research time is ...

At 6 months, 5 patients (9%) who had been assigned to total hip replacement had not undergone surgery, and 12 patients (21%) who had been assigned to resistance training had undergone total hip ...

Orthopedic technology company Corin has reached two new milestones with its Apollo robotic-assisted surgery platform and its OPSInsight technology ... Corin also recorded 50,000 total hip ...

A “groundbreaking” medical device which improves the accuracy of drilling screw holes into bones has been used in surgery for the first time. The drill guidance system (DGS) has been used in a ...

technology could help transform the future of hip replacement surgery. Researchers in Cambridge have won an award to further develop their wireless surgical aid, which has thin sensors to help ...