Complications and care of the knee prosthesis

The process of knee prosthesis implantation consists of replacing the injured cartilage of the tibia, femur and patella with a titanium sheath that covers their surfaces. To implant a knee prosthesis minimal incisions are used, with the objective of achieving a smaller damage in the structures of the knee, muscles or tendons, in addition to a smaller loss of blood. With the prosthesis the recovery is fast and with good results.

The prosthesis is necessary in all those processes or illnesses that involve a serious damage of the articular cartilage. Either by aging of the same one (as it happens in the arthrosis), by a disease (as it happens in the arthritis), or by important traumatisms that affected to the articulation of the knee.

Benefits and risks of the knee prosthesis

The problems of the destruction of the articular cartilage of the knee involve significant pain, deformity, loss of mobility and lameness, which are progressive and are increasing in intensity as time passes to produce an inability to walk, reaching the patient invalidate very significantly. With the knee prosthesis, all these symptoms disappear, allowing the patient to return to a normal life.

As for the contraindications, as any surgical act, it presents some risks, but with the new techniques and advances these have been diminished in a very important way.