arthroplasty complications
Persistent pain after knee replacement
Submitted by admin on March 22, 2008 - 1:02pm.After going through the procedure of knee replacement surgery it can be devastating to find that the pain in the knee has persisted. This paper discusses the possible reasons why this might occur.
There are a number of problems which which are the commoner causes of persistent pain after a knee replacement -
Functional Problems and Arthrofibrosis Following Total Knee Arthroplasty
Submitted by admin on January 12, 2008 - 4:50pm.[This is an interpretation of the following published medical paper.]
What are the chances of dying during a knee replacement?
Submitted by admin on June 22, 2007 - 9:28am.Are you contemplating a knee replacement and want to know the raw facts? Like ‘what are the chances of actually dying from this procedure?’.
A medical paper published in August 2001 (ref 1) examines this question in more than 22,000 consecutive knee replacement patients from the same organisation and the results suggest that:
