Total Knee Replacement is an elective surgery performed by trained Orthopaedic Surgeons for a High Grade Osteoarthritis of knee. The Arthritis may be a Primary one or secondary related to inflammatory disease such as Rheumatoid Arthritis or Trauma.
The advancements in the technique as well as the material of the implants have made this surgery a bliss for the patients. Total knee arthroplasty involves replacing the damaged distal part of the femur and proximal part of the tibia with metal implants and putting a highly cross linked polyethylene tibial insert on the tibial base plate. Total knee arthroplasty may or may not involve patella resurfacing. Dr Ankit Agrawal is among the best knee replacement surgeon in Mathura.
Correctly called as osteoarthritis is actually a degenerative disease. The Cartilage of the knee joint slowly wears with time and age, this leads to exposing off the raw bone ends which causes friction and hence pain.
Due to the ongoing reparative process of the body, there occurs formation of the osteophytes which restricts the motion and leads to deformity as well.These changes increase with age. Some people are also genetically predisposed to early osteoarthritis. Overweight or obese individuals also have an early onset of symptoms.
Dr Ankit Agrawal is one of the best knee replacement surgeon, but he knows that no one wants to go for such a major surgery. The joint pain specialist tells that keeping healthy habits like good lifestyle, controlling obesity, proper sitting habits and good exercise and physiotherapy can avoid early knee pain and arthritis. In early cases, sometimes knee injections also work in some patients. There are some small surgeries which we can do to avoid the total knee replacement, like the osteotomies in which we correct the alignment of the weight bearing axis and slow down the damage.
