Why Kinematic Alignment Leads to Better Knee Replacement Outcomes | CSOG
Key Highlights
- Concept of Kinematic Alignment: A technique for total knee replacement designed to provide a customized, tailored fit tailored to each individual patient's unique knee anatomy [00:12 Opens in a new window].
- Limitations of Traditional Alignment: Standard methods taught since the 1970s cut every tibia perpendicular to the ground and set the femur to share equal loads across compartments, which often disrupts the knee's natural ligament tension established in early adulthood [00:37 Opens in a new window].
- Restoring Natural Anatomy: Kinematic alignment matches the patient’s pre-arthritic coronal alignment across both the tibia and femur, restoring the knee to its original native state [01:05 Opens in a new window].
- Patient Satisfaction: Patients generally report that kinematically aligned knees feel significantly more natural post-surgery compared to those aligned using traditional mechanical techniques [01:18 Opens in a new window].
