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2. Knee replacement - Wikipedia

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   Knee replacement. Knee replacement, also known as knee arthroplasty, is a surgical procedure to replace the weight-bearing surfaces of the knee joint to relieve pain and disability, most commonly offered when joint pain is not diminished by conservative sources. [1] [2] It may also be performed for other knee diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis.

3. Does Medicare cover knee replacement surgery? - AOL

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   The average age to receive a knee or hip replacement is 65 making these ... There are about 790,000 total knee replacements and 544,000 hip replacements done every ... physical therapy, and ...

4. Why The Knee Pain Relief Industry Is Becoming ... - AOL

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   The knee-replacement industry generates nearly 800,000 surgeries a year. By 2030, the number of total knee replacements in the U.S. is projected to be 600 percent higher than in 2005. Plus ...

5. Manipulation under anesthesia - Wikipedia

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   Alternative therapy. Manipulation under anesthesia ( MUA) or fibrosis release procedures[ 1] is a multidisciplinary, chronic pain-related manual therapy modality which is used for the purpose of improving articular and soft tissue movement. [dubious – discuss][definition needed] This is accomplished by way of a combination of controlled joint ...

6. Knee cartilage replacement therapy - Wikipedia

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   The human body's own cartilage is still the best material for lining knee joints. This drives efforts to develop ways of using a person's own cells to grow, or re-grow cartilage tissue to replace missing or damaged cartilage. One cell-based replacement technique is called autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI) or autologous chondrocyte ...

7. Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction - Wikipedia

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   Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction ( ACL reconstruction) is a surgical tissue graft replacement of the anterior cruciate ligament, located in the knee, to restore its function after an injury. [ 1] The torn ligament can either be removed from the knee (most common), or preserved (where the graft is passed inside the preserved ruptured ...