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Mobile bearing prosthesis & gap balancing not predictive of superior knee flexion at 2 yr

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November 2015

Mobile bearing prosthesis & gap balancing not predictive of superior knee flexion at 2 yr

Vol: 4| Issue: 11| Number:15| ISSN#: 2564-2537
Study Type:Therapy
OE Level Evidence:2
Journal Level of Evidence:1

Mobile-bearing prosthesis and intraoperative gap balancing are not predictors of superior knee flexion: a prospective randomized study

Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc. 2015 Jul;23(7):1986-92

Contributing Authors:
Y Minoda H Iwaki M Ikebuchi T Yoshida S Mizokawa M Itokazu H Nakamura

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Synopsis

94 knees to be treated with total knee arthroplasty were randomized to receive either a posterior-stabilized mobile-bearing or fixed-bearing prosthesis. The purpose of the study was to determine how a gap balancing technique and the novel posterior-stabilized mobile-bearing prosthesis affected factors predictive of postoperative knee flexion 2 years post-operation. Results indicated that only larg...

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