High-flexion knee designs: more hype than hope? In opposition.
High-Flexion knee designs are emerging to allow a safe prosthetic environment to facilitate higher ranges of motion than designs of the past. Early biochemical and clinical data support this effort.
Kelly
Micheal A
MA
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, New Jersey 07601, USA.
D019645:Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000295:instrumentation*; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D006801:Humans; D007719:Knee Joint; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D016059:Range of Motion, Articular / Q000502:physiology*; D016896:Treatment Outcome