TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT OVERVIEW OF 40 CASES IN NURSING HOME HOSPITAL IS IT ENCOURAGING SURGEERY?

Abstract

Total knee replacement is challenging issue for long time under multiple indications and different designs of prosthesis used for improving range of motions in flexion and cancellation or decreasing pain aiming to change of quality of life in better progress.Objective of our study to evaluate the introduction of TKR (fixed bearing) in osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis and post traumatic cases with correlation its effectiveness for cancellation of the pain and increase range of motion with few technical highlighting this procedure for orthopedic surgeon and postgraduate student in Iraq. Two models of TKR design were used (PS&CR).Our observation demonstrate significant decrease in the pain in selected cases and significant improving in the range of he motion in flexion and extension with no significant difference in the type of the prostheses used. This study showed that TKR is encouraging and gratifying surgery for selected cases for he future in the Iraq.