TKA: STANDING ALIGNMENT DOESN’T PREDICT DYNAMIC ALIGNMENT (Orthopedics This Week)
Do you really need to aim for a straight limb when doing a total knee arthroplasty (TKA)?
The jury is out, but researchers from the UK and France have new evidence that says “no.”
Their work, “Does standing limb alignment after total knee arthroplasty predict dynamic alignment and knee loading during gait?” was published online March 24, 2017 in The Knee.
Charles Rivière, M.D., Ph.D. a consulting orthopedic surgeon at the MSK Lab, Imperial College London told OTW, “Postoperative standing frontal limb alignment ha...
