has provided the impetus to revisit the alignment strategy. Kinematic alignment (KA), an alternative alignment method in TKA, is based on a three-dimensional appreciation for the three axes of rotation of the knee. 27 – 29 Here, the objective is
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kinematics. 16 – 18 Kinematic alignment (KA) As implant technology has improved, the issue of component wear and loosening has dissipated, and the concept of restoring a patient’s native anatomy has gained increasing traction in the orthopaedic
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-positioning surgical techniques for TKA and THA and then, in the second half, to describe the newly promoted more personalized techniques (kinematic alignment). Conventional techniques for hip and knee replacement: rationale and limitations Conventional
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Introduction The Kinematic Alignment (KA) technique for total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is an alternative surgical technique aiming to resurface knee articular surfaces. 1 , 2 Ultimately, the goal of KA is to alter the knee physiological
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revise No difference in revision rate for neutral (4° to 9° anatomical valgus), varus or valgus alignment Retrospective study Parratte 21 2010 398 Kinematic Condylar II 15 Radiographic alignment, Kaplan-Meier survival analysis No
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perhaps depends on the choice of the different existing alignment techniques and the kinematic design principle of the implant used. 10 , 11 , 19 , 20 Knee alignment Alignment is critical for the long-term survival of TKA and is relevant to the
Charles Rivière, Stefan Lazic, Oliver Boughton, Yann Wiart, Loic Vïllet, and Justin Cobb
to right, kinematic alignment (KA), restricted KA (rKA), adjusted mechanical alignment (aMA), anatomical alignment (AA), mechanical alignment (MA). Excepting the KA technique, all techniques necessitate varying amounts of soft-tissue release (more so
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Vision 1.61 navigation system (Brain Lab, Heimstetten, Germany) in kinematic mode. They found that the patellofemoral contact stress did not correlate with the sagittal and coronal alignment of the femoral component or the patellar tracking. Only the
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separation between femur and tibia. Finally, this two-sided approach is too limited for the three-dimensional reality of the human joint. Kinematics The study of kinematics describes the relative motion of rigid bodies, in casu , the motion of
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interface. The latter has become the gold standard. 63 More recently, an alternative alignment strategy has been studied, namely kinematic or functional alignment, which is based on a three-dimensional appreciation of the single axis of rotation of the