Calipered Kinematically aligned Total Knee Arthroplasty E-Book

Calipered kinematic alignment was proposed by Dr. Stephen M. Howell to enable the accurate and individualized placement of total knee components coincident within ± 0.5 mm of the patient''s pre-arthritic alignment. The aim was to restore the patient''s native joint kinematics and thereby address the well documented 20% dissatisfaction when total knee replacement is performed using traditional, or ...