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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.
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 ...
Microfracture surgery. Left knee-joint from behind, showing interior ligaments. (Lateral meniscus and medial meniscus are cartilage.) Microfracture surgery is an articular cartilage repair surgical technique that works by creating tiny fractures in the underlying bone. This causes new cartilage to develop from a so-called super-clot.
New research published in the New England Journal of Medicine had 407 people with obesity and knee osteoarthritis take semaglutide (the active component of Ozempic and Wegovy) or a placebo over 68 ...
Meniscal cartilage replacement therapy. Head of right tibia seen from above, showing menisci and attachments of ligaments. [edit on Wikidata] Left knee-joint from behind, showing interior ligaments. Meniscal cartilage replacement therapy is surgical replacement of the meniscus of the knee as a treatment for where the meniscus is so damaged that ...
April 10, 2024 at 11:31 AM. Lionel Hahn/Getty Images. Lindsey Vonn decided to have knee replacement surgery after sustaining several injuries throughout her career. “After a lot of thought ...
81.54. [edit on Wikidata] Unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) is a surgical procedure used to relieve arthritis in one of the knee compartments in which the damaged parts of the knee are replaced. UKA surgery may reduce post-operative pain and have a shorter recovery period than a total knee replacement procedure, [1][2] particularly in ...
Knee pain is pain caused by wear and tear, such as osteoarthritis or a meniscal tear. Effective treatments for knee pain include physical therapy exercises, [28] pain-reducing drugs such as ibuprofen, joint stretching, [29][30] knee replacement surgery, and weight loss in people who are overweight. [27]