Knee-replacement surgery is frequently done and highly successful. It relieves pain and
improves knee function in people with advanced arthritis of the joint. The most common …

PURPOSE: To develop concise, patient-focussed, up to date, evidence-based, expert
consensus recommendations for the management of hip and knee osteoarthritis (OA), which …

Background Late-stage isolated medial knee osteoarthritis can be treated with total knee
replacement (TKR) or partial knee replacement (PKR). There is high variation in treatment …

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are known to have a potential for articular cartilage
regeneration. However, most studies focused on focal cartilage defect through surgical …

Background Robotic-assisted TKA was introduced to enhance the precision of bone
preparation and component alignment with the goal of improving the clinical results and …

With improving patient outcome after joint arthroplasty, new assessment tools with increased
discriminatory power especially in well-performing patients are desirable. The goal of the …

In 1989, The Knee Society Clinical Rating System [3] was developed as a simple, but
objective scoring system to rate the knee and patient's functional abilities such as walking …

We have previously reported the short-term radiological results of a randomised controlled
trial comparing kinematically aligned total knee replacement (TKR) and mechanically …

Purpose The aim of this study was to identify the minimal clinically important difference
(MCID) in the Oxford knee score (OKS) and Short Form (SF-) 12 score after total knee …

We have developed a 12-item questionnaire for patients having a total knee replacement
(TKR). We made a prospective study of 117 patients before operation and at follow-up six …