Partial or Unicompartmental Knee Replacement
The knee is a combination of three joints, or compartments. While some patterns of osteoarthritis involve all parts of the knee, in other cases, the damage is limited to one compartment.
If this is the case, one treatment option is a partial or unicompartmental knee replacement, in which only the damaged compartment is resurfaced with an implant. Partial replacement has been around for a while — TCJR has been doing them since 1986 — but the procedure has benefited from improvements in surgical technique and prosthetic implant designs.
Newer surgical techniques permit the partial knee implant to be inserted through a small incision without splitting the quadriceps muscle, which is routinely done in total knee surgery. There is much less swelling and bleeding, and partial knee replacements require significantly less recovery time than total knee replacement surgery.
Oxford® Partial Knee Animation
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