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Message from the President – February 2025
Dear PAS Members, As we welcome 2025, we extend our sincere gratitude to each of you for your dedication to the Personalized Arthroplasty Society (PAS). Your engagement and passion continue to push the boundaries of personalized hip and knee arthroplasty, helping us...
Message from the President – January 2025
Dear PAS Members, As we enter 2025, I want to take a moment to reflect on the tremendous progress we’ve made together over the past year. Thanks to your commitment and passion for advancing personalized care in arthroplasty, we have surpassed an exciting milestone—our...
Save for Date – 2025 Annual Meeting
Registration Open for 2024 PAS Annual Meeting
This meeting supports the Society’s goal of bringing together the world’s most innovative surgeons and ingineers alongside the most forward-thinking companies in order to advance the state of personalized Hip and Knee arthroplasty to all patients, promoting the...
PAS Welcomes New Executive Director, Curtis Ksenak
The Personalized Arthroplasty Society welcomes Curtis Ksenak as its new Executive Director! Curtis comes from the association management sector, and is looking forward to moving PAS forward in 2023!
Kinematic Alignment in Total Knee Arthroplasty
Introduction Over 100,000 total knee replacements (TKR) are performed annually for painful end-stage osteoarthritis (OA) in the UK. The main reason for undertaking a TKR is to provide pain relief as well as improving function and mobility. Up to 20% of patients...
Calipered Kinematically aligned Total Knee Arthroplasty
Description Calipered kinematic alignment was proposed by Dr. Stephen M. Howell to enable the accurate and individualized placement of total knee components coincident within ± 0.5 mm of the patient’s pre-arthritic alignment. The aim was to restore the patient’s...
Mechanical alignment: The end of an era!
Half a century ago, Michael Freeman introduced the concept of right-angled femoral and tibial bone cuts in total knee arthroplasty (TKA)- mechanical alignment (MA). A little later, John Insall, raised the importance of balancing the resulting medial-lateral and...