Dr. Unmesh Mahajan explains the benefits of Total Knee Replacement.
The benefits following surgery are the relief of symptoms of arthritis.
These include : - Severe pain that limits your everyday activities including walking, shopping, visiting friends, getting in and out of the chair, gardening, etc.
- Pain waking you at night
- Deformity- either bowleg or knock knees
- Stiffness
Before surgery, you will usually have tried some conservative treatments such as simple analgesics, weight loss, anti-inflammatory medications, modification of your activities, canes, or physical therapy.
Once these have failed it is time to consider surgery. Most patients who have TKR are between 60 to 80 years, but each patient is assessed individually and patients as young as 20 or old as 90 are occasionally operated on with good results.
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