Soft Tissue Balancing in Total Knee Arthroplasty

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Matsuda, Shuichi (Editor), Lustig, Sébastien (Editor), van der Merwe, Willem (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Orthopedics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Surgical Orthopedics.

In this booklet, experts from across the world, including members of the ISAKOS Knee Arthroplasty Committee, offer clear, up-to-date guidance on all aspects of soft tissue or ligament balancing in primary total knee arthroplasty with the aim of enabling the reader to achieve optimal patient outcomes...

Table of Contents:

• Native knee: Anatomy and biomechanics
• Soft tissue balance in native knee
• Knee kinematics in native knee. Operative procedure 1 - primary TKA: Primary principals in soft tissue balancing
• CR: Measured resection technique
• PS: Gap technique
• BCR: How to achieve near normal kinematics. Operative procedure 2 - primary TKA: Varus knee - severe cases included
• Valgus knee - severe cases included
• Complicated cases - recurvatum, severe contracture
• Increasing ROM. Assessment in primay TKA: Intraoperative assessment - tensor
• Intraoperative assessment - navigation
• Intraoperative assessment - OrthoSenser. Clinical relevance: primary TKA: Postoperative changes in soft tissue balance
• Intraoperative soft tissue balance and postoperative knee kinematics
• Intraoperative soft tissue balance and clinical results(ROM, function)
• Knee kinematics and patient satisfaction. Patella: Avoiding patellar maltracking
• Management of patellar baja and alta. Trouble shooting: Intraoperative MCL injury
• Patellar tendon rupture.