Total Knee Joint Replacement Surgery

This 3D medical animation shows a total knee joint replacement surgery of the right knee. The animation depicts the following surgical steps: the incicion; exposure of the arthritic knee joint (chondromalacia); removal of the femoral condyle surface; removal of the tibial plateau; placement of the femoral condyle prosthesis; placement of the tibial plateau and patellar joint prosthetics; comparison of a post-surgical x-ray; and closure of the surgical incision with drainage tube in place. ANCE00194

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Film & Animation

Tags:

• animated
• animation
• animations
• arthritic
• arthritis
• arthrodesis
• arthrosis
• artificial
• bone
• bones
• breaks
• broken
• cap
• caps
• cartilage
• cartilages
• chondromalacia
• comparison
• condylar
• condyle
• condyles
• degenerative
• depicts
• ebsco
• exposure
• exposures
• femoral
• femur
• femurs
• film
• films
• following
• fracture
• fractured
• fractures
• incicion
• joint
• joints
• knee
• kneecap
• kneecaps
• knees
• medical
• operation
• operations
• operative
• patella
• patellae
• patellar
• patellas
• placement

[musicman5236]

I had both knees done in Cape Town, South Africa about 4 years ago and it changed my life from been a grumpy old man with very bad knee pain to a happy pain free person.

Well done to all those knee surgeons out there.Wayne

[louisette02]

Video génial, well done

[m8trxd]

This ortho nurse loves your channel. Thanks for all of the great videos! Patient education from my iPhone... This is the wave of the future. Hope that soon we will all be charting from ipads!!