Moximed said that surgeons have implanted its Calpyso knee unloading system in the first osteoarthritis patient in its U.S. clinical trial. The Calypso is designed to work like a shock absorber for the knee by restoring a more normal load balance within the joint. It may help prevent or delay total knee replacement, according to […]
Wexner Medical Center
Turns out knee surgery can hold even in heavier patients
It turns out that an increased body mass index is actually a poor predictor of whether a common type of knee surgery, meniscal repair, will fail, according to new research out of Ohio State University. The results matter because experts assumed that BMI mattered when it came to the roughly 15% of meniscal repairs that […]