Total knee arthroplasty with unexplained pain: new insights from kinematics.

Célia PlanckaertGabriel LarosePierre RangerMarc LacelleAlexandre FuentesNicola Hagemeister

Published in: Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery (2018)

Painful TKA patients presented three well-known characteristics that tend to increase patellofemoral forces and that could be the cause of the unexplained pain: a stiff knee gait, a valgus alignment when walking, and combined TKA components slightly internally rotated.

Keyphrases

total knee arthroplasty
total hip
chronic pain
end stage renal disease
pain management
neuropathic pain
ejection fraction
chronic kidney disease
newly diagnosed
prognostic factors
peritoneal dialysis
spinal cord
patient reported outcomes
knee osteoarthritis