arthroplasty complications

Persistent pain after knee replacement

admin — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 05:02:13 -0700

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

admin — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 07:50:16 -0800

[This is an interpretation of the following published medical paper.]

What are the chances of dying during a knee replacement?

admin — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:28:39 -0700

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: