This is a mandatory and best surgical procedure which a patient requires at a certain age suffering from severe knee joint pain.
The procedure starts one or two weeks before surgery where few tests are performedthe patient before admission in hospital to check which anaesthesia is best for patient. The tests are as follows:
- Physical diagnosis
- Anaemia check
- Certain Blood tests
- Urine analysis
- Baseline metabolic tests
- Different cardio related tests
- X-ray
- MRI
After inducing anaesthesia surgeons will perform the surgery by holding the knee in a pyramid position and remove all the excess fat tissue which is a hurdle in the surgery. Now, knee replacement surgery is performed by two different techniques which are as follows:
- Total Knee Replacement (TKR): A deep incision is made in the skin from the centre of the knee until joint capsula is exposed and knee joints present in both of the sides is replaced with the metal and plastic parts. Surgeons do apply a medicated plaster on knee and adjust the same with different ortho tools which helps the knee to bring back in its original position.
- Partial Knee Replacement (PKR): In this technique, a small operation is performed where a deep incision made in skin on one side of the knee as only one side of the knee joint required replacing with fresh metallic and plastic parts accompanied by knee cap to cover it. PKR is a small surgery and does not take much time.
