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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...