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VIDEO: Soft tissue balance more important than knee alignment in TKA outcomes
7 days ago - By Healio
LAS VEGAS - At the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting, Jeffrey H. DeClaire, MD, FAAOS, discussed a multicenter study in which a robotic-assisted system was used for total knee arthroplasty planning in 266 patients.
The patients underwent TKA with knee balancing done within 0.5 mm as measured by a the OMNIBot robotic-assisted system. Researchers focused their analysis on laxity difference on the medial and lateral side of the knee in extension, mid-flexion and flexion. They then correlated those laxity parameter findings with the KOOS pain score,
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