In the beginning of early osteoarthritis medicines and physiotherapy with knee cap help to reduce pain. But in cases when pain ,and other problems like decrease in walking speed, difficulty in daily activities like stair climbing, playing recreational sports remains then one has to consider surgery.
Knee preservation is the procedure when we keep natural knee as it is and avoid putting artificial metallic knee joint. This will be done by recreating normal alignment in knee by cutting bone as shown in figure . Advantage of this procedure are many due to presence of natural knee like sitting cross legged, squatting position, playing sports, stair climbing etc.. so think twice before taking decision of knee replacement..
Knee preservation is the procedure when we keep natural knee as it is and avoid putting artificial metallic knee joint. This will be done by recreating normal alignment in knee by cutting bone as shown in figure . Advantage of this procedure are many due to presence of natural knee like sitting cross legged, squatting position, playing sports, stair climbing etc.. so think twice before taking decision of knee replacement..
