Joint Preservation Surgery for Medial Compartment Osteoarthritis.

ABSTRACT: Single compartment osteoarthritis is a commonly encountered condition in the middle-aged population, with the medial compartment being the most commonly involved compartment. Medial compartment osteoarthritis becomes seriously disabling for these active patients, with a very few definitive solutions. These patients quickly stop responding to the conservative methods such as lifestyle modification, drugs, physiotherapy, and rehab programs. Less invasive procedures such as intra-articular injections or joint debridement also do not give a long-lasting relief. On the other hand, this population is too young to undergo a knee replacement surgery because the failure rate of a knee replacement surgery is too high in the middle-aged patients as compared with the elderly population. A combination

SUBMITTER: Goyal D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5495658 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature