Partial Knee Replacement Detailed

Sometimes the process is recommended to conduct a detailed partial knee replacement of people who suffer from severe arthritis in the knee. Arthritis typically leads to making the smooth surfaces of the joint rough. Physicians are advised to conduct an operation to relieve pain and improve the patient's ability to walk, where he replaces the injured knee severe rheumatoid part hinge only artificial. And performed surgery through a small incision in the knee area.

Besides knee opens in place which it will artificial joint, and still cartilage (meniscus), artificial joint in place and placed. After the surgery, you can use the physical machine for processing. The physical therapist to supervise the treatment program to increase the patient's activity. When the muscles of the leg and thigh become strong, it can resume all normal activities.

 Partial replacement of the knee joint - Introduction

It can be severe inflammation in the knee joint leads to severe pain, and the inability to walk. Doctors can advise a surgery for people who suffer from severe inflammation in the knee. This surgery is called a detailed process of partial replacement of the knee, which helps to relieve pain and improve the patient's ability to walk.

If the doctor advised to conduct surgery to replace the knee joint as a whole or in part, the make or not to make this process a decision is the decision back to the patient as well. This educational program will help you develop a better understanding of the benefits and risks of this process.

 

 Anatomy of the knee

Detailed connects the knee thigh leg. Bones that have to do with this joint are the following:

     Thigh bone.
     Patella, also known cover the knee, a floating greatness or soap that gives shape knee ring.
     Tibia or tibia, the leg bones.

These bones are covered with a special fabric called cartilage or meniscus. And allows the smooth surface of the cartilage of the movement of a series of non-painful knee joint. Ligaments connecting the bones to each other, and helps to stabilize the knee.

 

Symptoms and causes

Arthritis leads to making contact surfaces rough, causing severe pain. It can hinder the intense pain the patient to work and engage in normal activities. Also very difficult to walk it may also become. Arthritis may occur due to cases of knee arthritis, or chronic damage and rupture of the joint, or because of an old injury.

 

 Alternative treatments

 

 Patients sometimes tries taking certain medications, such as aspirin or ibuprofen, to reduce inflammation in the knee joint. As physical therapy it may also succeed in maintaining the extent possible movement of the joint. It can help to use the stick or datum also walk. Steroidal injection drugs may be useful in the knee joint to help relieve pain and reduce inflammation. For patients who are overweight, the weight loss helps to ease the burden on the knee joint. And when the decision making process for the replacement of the knee joint, the weight loss will help the success of the operation as well.

 Surgical treatment

During the process of conducting a detailed partial replacement of the knee, the doctor replaces the injured knee joint portion severe rheumatoid only artificial hinge. Process should be conducted through an incision in the knee area. The doctor knee on the part of the place where the artificial joint would open, then remove the meniscus, and enters the artificial joint part in the thigh and trachea.

 

 Artificial joint may require a bone paste depending on its type. But there are types of artificial joints that attach themselves to normal bone, and do not need to paste. At the end of the process, the skin is closed. The drainage tube is used to remove excess fluid sometimes.

 

Risks and complications

This process is extremely safe. But there are numerous risks and potential complications, although it is unlikely obtained. The patient should know these complications in anticipation of receiving, because the knowledge may make it able to help the doctor detect complications early. These risks and complications include the risks of anesthesia and the risks resulting from all types of surgical operations, and the risks resulting from this process specifically.

 

 Include risks from anesthesia nausea, vomiting, urinary retention and injured lips and broken teeth, sore throat and headache. The most risks from anesthesia include heart attacks, strokes and pneumonia. The anesthesiologist will talk with the patient about these risks in greater detail. I will ask him about the existence of any allergic reaction to some medication. Can make blood clots in the legs.

 

 Show a few days after surgery is usually, causing severe leg swelling and pain. It helps the advancement of the patient out of bed and walk soon after surgery to reduce the risk of blood clots in the legs. In rare cases, these blood clots that travels from the legs to the lungs, which causes a narrowing of breath and chest pain, and may lead to death.

 

 And shortness of breath can happen without warning sometimes. Therefore, it is very important that the patient tells the doctor about these symptoms occur. There are some risks that can result from any kind of surgery, including:

     Infection in deep space or on the surface of the skin; if the infection hit the artificial joint area are required, it would then be replaced.

     Bleeding, either during or after the operation, it may require the transfer of blood to the patient.

     The appearance of a scar on the skin may be painful or form is unacceptable.

 

 There are risks and other complications related to this surgery specifically. It is also rare. However, it is important to know. Members may be involved in the knee area, noting that it is rare. You can get the arteries and veins to leg flying. It can also be infected flying down towards the leg nerves, causing leg weakness or a lack of sensation.

 

 Artificial joint has been separated from the adjacent bone or Enkla from his place. In some rare cases, teams may occur in length between the legs. Detailed and can not move the new knee joint, such as the natural knee, the patient may feel Baltibis. It may not go away the pain after the operation, but it becomes more severe than it was before the surgery. In extremely rare cases. Can a patient suffering from a fatal allergic reactions to the adhesive used.

 

 After surgery

After the surgery, it can be used to address the physical movement of the machine continuously. This machine commends leg forward and back, while the patient is resting in bed to help increase the flexibility of the leg movement. With the passage of time, the patient is able to increase its activities under the direct supervision of the physical processor.

 

 In the end, the patient is able to resume most of his activities as work on strengthening the muscles of the thigh and gradually leg. The patient may need initially to use a cane or walking machine in order to relieve the pressure on the new knee joint. With the passage of time, it is able to walk without help. Because of this intensive program of physical therapy, and because the patient will suffer initially from the difficulty in movement, sometimes it may need a short stay in a treatment center to improve the results of surgery. In this case, the social workers at the hospital assist him in the arrangements.

 

Conclusion

It can be exposed knee joint sometimes to severe injuries for a variety of reasons, such as arthritis or knee injury, leading to severe pain and unable to walk. When appropriate, you can replace the knee joint in whole or in part. It called parts of a piece of synthetic replacement "artificial joint." The doctor during surgery put artificial joint between the thigh bone and the trachea.

 

 The detailed process of replacing the knee is very successful in helping to relieve pain and improve the patient's quality of life. This process is safe and gives good results. But, as we mentioned earlier, complications may occur. Knowing these complications will help the patient to detect early if they occur.