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- Title
Knee joint preservation: a call for daily practice revival of realignment surgery and osteotomies around the knee.
- Authors
Heerwaarden, Ronald; Hirschmann, Michael; van Heerwaarden, Ronald J; Hirschmann, Michael T
- Abstract
The authors talk about preserving treatment of the degenerative knee. They discuss one of the most important goals in knee joint preservation, the failure of many surgeons to consider leg realignment as a first step of treatment, and the issue devoted by the "Knee Surgery, sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy" in 2013 to the subject of osteotomies around the knee. An overview of articles published within the issue is also offered.
- Subjects
KNEE diseases; DEGENERATION (Pathology); KNEE surgery; OSTEOTOMY; ORTHOPEDIC surgery; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy, 2017, Vol 25, Issue 12, p3655
- ISSN
0942-2056
- Publication type
editorial
- DOI
10.1007/s00167-017-4702-8