Do You Suffer From Severe Knee Pain?

If your knee is damaged by any injury, it becomes difficult to walk, run, and to do works. You feel pain when sitting or lying down. Due to damage and inflammation in the knees, it becomes difficult to bend or flex your knees.

Knee Replacement Surgery is the common solution that provides complete pain relief. This modern surgical procedure is also known as Knee Arthroplasty. Knee replacement surgery can be performed as partial or total knee replacement surgery.

Minimally Invasive Joint Replacement

In traditional knee replacement surgery a 15-20 cm long incision made in the center of the knee to access the joint. The surgery takes longer recovery time. Due to the long recovery, the patient feels pain and must depend on the walker. But in minimally invasive surgery an incision of length less than 10 cm used.

Benefits

• Shorter hospital stay
• Smaller incisions
• Limited blood loss
• Shorter rehabilitation periods
• Less perioperative pain

Unicompartmental Knee Replacement

In this procedure, the knee is divided into three compartments

1. the inside or medial compartment
2. the outside or lateral compartment
3. kneecap or the patellofemoral compartment

In unicompartmental knee replacement only the damaged compartment is replaced. Healthy bone and cartilage are left untouched.

Benefits

• Minimally invasive surgery
• If total knee replacement surgery is needed in future it becomes easier to revise it.
• Preserves healthy part of the knee.

Rathimed Specialty Hospital Chennai, provides best knee replacement surgery at affordable rates. It provides high-quality services to all patients and mainly focusses on artificial Joint Replacement Surgery of Hip & Knee.

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First Time In India - Kinematic Knee Replacement In Chennai

Kinematic knee replacement technique is the latest technology which was introduced for the first time in India by Rathi Med Hospital. The hospital is best for performing knee replacement in Chennai.

What is Kinematic knee replacement?

This is the technique which uses customized and precise alignment methodologies to suit the anatomy of each person. Thus this replacement technique does not cause any changes to the natural alignment of knee. If we are using conventional knee replacement surgeries, it will take more time to get recovered and also the patient need to use painkillers to alleviate postoperative pain. Nevertheless, some surgeries can also cause instability. Kinematic knee replacement keeps away all these consequence. 

Advantages Of Kinematic Knee Replacement:

• Postoperative pain is less
• Patient can walk without any support
• This procedure is free from complications
• The knee can be bended properly within 2 weeks from the surgery
• No need to use pain killers
• Optimum functionality of the knee can be achieved
• Recovery period is very low

Various studies have made it clear that patients can achieve good flexibility and better functionality by undergoing this Kinematic knee replacement.

Rathi Med Speciality Hospital is the pioneer in introducing kinematic knee replacement technique in India.

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Who needs a Knee replacement surgery

In humans, a lot of large joints, which, like the complicated levers redistribute weight and ensure normal traffic. The knee is just such joints and accounts for the entire mass of the human body. That is why diseases that are associated with the knee, are in first place in trauma practice. 

First Knee replacement was done in 1968. Now it is an advanced surgical treatment which helps a lots of people who is straggling to complete there daily works.

Who needs a knee replacement?

Knee replacement is used in cases where the painful joint stiffness makes it difficult even the simplest movement, and other well-known medical facilities have been tried. Basically, these operations are performed in patients older than 50 years, with severe form of osteoarthritis.

What are the latest advances in surgery for the knee Replacement?

Minimally invasive surgery has radically altered the knee surgery, however, like many other areas of medicine. The key difference is that in minimally invasive surgery using special methods and tools to carry out complex operations without large incisions.

 Minimally invasive surgery to replace a knee joint requires a much smaller incision (7 to 11 centimeters), compared to traditional operation. A less invasive approach means less damaged tissues, as Doctor can run exactly between the fibers quadriceps muscle and tendon is not cut. Reducing pain, reduced recovery period, easing traffic due to the smaller amount of scar tissue after knee replacement - all to achieve minimally invasive surgery.

Currently, minimally invasive surgery is using all over the world.

What happens after surgery?

In normal case patient remains in the hospital after a knee replacement from three to five days. The vast majority of people who undergo such operations, significant improvements noticeable. They appear, as a rule, one month after surgery or later. The pain of a damaged joint, leaving as soon as a new sliding surface is formed during the operation.

After knee replacement patients try to stand and walk the next day. First, you can move around with the help of two parallel bars, then - relying on crutches, a walker or a cane until the knee will not be able to keep the total weight of your body. About six weeks later, most people can safely walk almost unaided. When power is restored muscle physiotherapy for who underwent knee replacement only limitation is people can’t running and jumping.

Our Specialties

We Rathi Med is one of the leading Specialty Hospital in Tamil Nadu India. We delivers advanced care for orthopedics, We’re focused on Joint and Knee Replacement Surgeries. Our experts will always help you to clear your doubts about any of your orthopedic issues. Click here to ask to our doctors.