you might be a candidate for a partial knee replacement. The most common scenario is arthritis isolated to the medial compartment, or inner side of the knee between the femur and tibia ...

Knees are made up of the medial, lateral and kneecap compartments, and surgeons sometimes need to replace only one of these if arthritis isn’t widespread. For a total knee replacement ...

Uni compartmental knee replacement (UKR) is a minimally invasive surgery for severe osteoarthritis affecting a portion of the knee. UKR involves less pain, quicker recovery, and smaller incisions ...

This inflammation can affect any of the knee’s three main components: the inner (medial) side ... physician may recommend a (knee) joint replacement surgery. A knee replacement can either ...

An expert panel produced these recommendations based on a linked systematic review triggered by a randomised trial published in The BMJ in June 2016, which found that, among patients with a ...

Mid-term equivalent survival of medial and lateral unicondylar knee replacement: an analysis of data from a National Joint Registry. The safety of peri-articular local anaesthetic injection for ...