If you suffer from knee pain caused by osteoarthritis, the solution doesn’t have to involve ‘replacing’ your knee, and you may not need a total replacement.

Osteoarthritis is natural wear and tear of the knee that sees the cartilage ‘buffer’ between the bones of the knee wear away to leave bone grinding on bone. If you have knee pain resulting from osteoarthritis, Yorkshire Knee Clinic’s knee consultants for Dewsbury can help you rediscover what a life without knee pain feels like.

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Knee replacements in Dewsbury

Over the last decade we’ve seen a huge leap forward in the success of knee replacement surgery. In the hands of specialist, experienced knee surgeons for Dewsbury, more than 90% of patients enjoy pain-free (or virtually pain-free) knees, allowing them to return to an active life.

Yet, despite knee replacement being a relatively common procedure, it’s not well understood, which means virtually every conversation the knee surgeons of Yorkshire Knee Clinic have with our patients begins with a similar question:

Will you remove my knee?

That word ‘replacement’ has a lot to answer for. Yet whilst the word conjures up images of the leg being ‘chopped’ above and below the knee, and having the old knee removed and a new one swapped in, that’s not what happens at all.

Knee ‘replacement’ in Dewsbury is really knee ‘resurfacing’. The procedure involves removing the worn out surface of the bones in the knee and creating a new surface for the bone made of thin metal implants. Between the surfaces, we place a polyethylene spacer which acts as a hard-wearing artificial cartilage.

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Partial vs total knee replacement in Dewsbury

To date, Yorkshire Knee Clinic’s knee doctors have performed thousands of knee replacements for patients in Dewsbury, Yorkshire and beyond. Of those, up to 50% of the patients we see who have symptoms bad enough to warrant knee replacement are suited to partial knee resurfacing. Partial knee ‘replacements’ are suitable for patients for wear on one side of the knee only, and the procedure offers several advantages over a total knee replacement:

• Patients usually recover quicker (as the surgery is less invasive)
• Risks associated with surgery are reduced
• Recovery tends to be more complete as all the knee ligaments are preserved

If you’re suffering from knee pain caused by osteoarthritis, total or partial knee replacement in Dewsbury could help you return to everyday activities, knee-pain free.

To discuss your situation, contact the knee specialists for Dewsbury today or phone us on 03453 052 579.