Can total knee arthroplasty restore the correlation between radiographic mechanical axis angle and dynamic coronal plane alignment during gait?

Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is the treatment of choice for end-stage knee osteoarthritis. Postoperative static knee alignment has been recognized as a key component of successful surgery. A correction toward the kinematics of a native knee is expected after TKA, with an aim for neutral mechanical alignment. The evolution of frontal plane knee kinematics is not well understood.

Source: The Knee - April 28, 2019 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Gabriel Larose, Alexandre Fuentes, Frederic Lavoie, Rachid Aissaoui, Jacques de Guise, Nicola Hagemeister Source Type: research