Robot-assisted knee replacement costs
If we are to charge patients significantly more for robot assisted knee replacements, surely we need to establish their value first, argues Prof Nick London.
Is Wearable Tech the Future for Patient Recovery?
Yorkshire Knee Clinic’s Jim Newman explores how wearable tech is helping knee surgeons understand one mystery of patient recovery.
Robot knee surgery faces cost challenge
Prof. Nick London explores why, for robot-assisted knee surgery, the cost benefit still remains elusive.
Energy harvesting knee implants
Jim Newman looks at a new prototype designed to help monitor knee loads – and has some concerns. Knee loading is of critical importance to a knee surgeon. For most of us, balancing the loads (that is, the forces passing through our knees) is something we do...
Evaluating the Persona Partial Knee
Prof. Nick London presents initial findings from his study of the Persona® Partial Knee implant. Around 18 months ago, we covered the launch of the Persona® Partial Knee (PPK), a new implant for partial knee replacement patients developed by Zimmer Biomet and a team...
Custom knee replacements
In the latest in our season of articles exploring the role of technology in knee surgery, Jim Newman discusses one tool that’s proving particularly useful in partial knee replacements where patients have unusual anatomy. A huge part of knee replacement surgery takes...
The decisions that really matter for your knee surgery
In the latest in our season on the emerging technology in knee surgery, Prof. Nick London cuts through the marketing to explore the decisions that really are critical to the success of your knee surgery. Do a quick Google search of the latest news surrounding total or...
Technology vs experience
In the first of a season of posts exploring the tension between emerging technology and traditional clinical judgement, Yorkshire Knee Clinic’s Prof. Nick London explores the current state of play – and starts by busting a few myths. It’s easy to get carried away with...