Femoral component rotation: Find your groove more accurately
This article follows on from Whiteside’s Line: Throw it out and start again. In that article I explained why the
Whiteside’s Line: Throw it out and start again
Whiteside’s Line: Throw it out and start again This headline may sound a bit harsh, and no offense intended to
Do I need a Knee Arthroscopy – I’ve heard they don’t work?
Knee arthroscopy has been a very popular operation for treating painful knees for more than 30 years. Unfortunately it doesn’t
Femurs are twisted and it screws up our knee replacements
This article uses the techniques we described in Whiteside’s Line: Throw it out and start again and Femoral component rotation: Find
Femoral Rotation: Let’s Just Use the Posterior Condyles?
The most commonly used landmark to set femoral rotation is the posterior condyles. They are easy to find and easy
Femoral Malrotation: Harder to see but more likely to blame
OK, so femoral rotation is not the only thing you have to get right during a knee replacement. But it
Femoral Rotation : When the Gold Standard is a bit rubbish
The Gold Standard for femoral component rotation following total knee arthroplasty is a line parallel to the Surgical Epicondylar Axis (SEA) on a three-dimensional CT reconstruction of the knee.
