Project description
Appropriate soft tissue balancing and accurate bony alignment are essential to ensure stability of the operated knee. Computer guided surgery enables accurate bony alignment, however, soft tissue balancing remains generally based on surgeons’ “subjective feel” requiring a steep learning curve for young surgeons. However, regardless of the surgeon’s experience and the technique used, instability of the implanted knee remains to be a major concern. This project aims to develop a novel liner for TKA that (intrinsically) ensures appropriate soft tissue balancing is achieved without the need for further soft tissue balancing operation. This will be based on previously collected kinematic and kinetic data. The proposed intrinsically stable TKA will employ advanced biomechanical modelling and 3D printing technologies to design and manufacture components that replicate the pre-operative knee motion by incorporating information on patient’s anatomy and kinematic force profiles.
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