Design and evaluation of a 3D printed mechanical balancer for soft tissue balancing in total knee replacement

Soft tissue balancing is an important step in a total knee procedure, carried out manually, or using an indicator. The purpose of this study was to evaluate our design of 3D printed Balancer, and demonstrate how it could be used at surgery.

Source: The Knee - August 17, 2023 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Utkarsh Anil, Charles Lin, Thomas Bieganowski, Daniel Hennessy, Ran Schwarzkopf, Peter S. Walker Source Type: research