Total Knee Replacements
The goal of a total knee replacement is to provide pain relief and improve your ability to be active. A majority of patients who undergo knee replacement have a dramatic improvement in their quality of life and pain relief.
A total knee replacement consists of removing the diseased bone and replacing with metal and plastic implants. In doing so the pain generators are removed and deformity corrected.
If you have significant impairment in your daily life, persistent knee pain which isn't getting better with injections, therapy, activity modifications then you may be a candidate for knee replacement, to improve your quality of life.