Hinged Total Knee Replacement
The triathlon single radius has been designed to work with the body to promote a natural like circular motion to help restore function and.
Hinged total knee replacement. Rotating knee replacement implants are a choice for total knee replacement surgery a procedure done to replace worn out cartilage of the knee joint with a metal and plastic implant development is constantly taking place to design a knee replacement implant that will be both reliable and last a long time. Our triathlon total knee system portfolio offers you many options to treat patients needing a total knee replacement. Surgeon finds hinged knees an alternative to tka for patients with oa the status of a patient s collateral ligaments and age can help determine whether a hinged knee implant is indicated. In this case the two components of the knee joint are linked together with a hinged mechanism.
The hinge system utilizes the same stems cones patellas and both trabecular metal precoat augments as the nexgen lcck constrained knee system. He presented potential indications for rotating hinged or pure hinged implants in primary total knee arthroplasty tka at the current concepts in joint replacement winter meeting here. Rotating hinged total knee replacement. Legion primary revision and hinge share the same bone conserving femoral resections.
Nevertheless it s estimated that more than 22 000 knee revision operations. Multiple femoral tibial stem and augment sizes. Nexgen rotating hinge knee the nexgen rh knee features a bone conserving modular hinge design that addresses key issues related to many conventional rotating hinge knee designs. 1 rothman institute 925 chestnut street philadelphia pa 19107 usa.
Constraint or hinged variety implants are rarely used as a first choice of surgical options. Pour ae 1 parvizi j slenker n purtill jj sharkey pf. Uniform sizing of all components from legion primary to revision. This type of knee replacement is used when the knee is highly unstable and the person s ligaments will not be able to support the other type of knee.
Since its launch in 2004 more than 2 million patients have received a triathlon knee.