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Why remove healthy ligaments when you don’t have to?
With Partial Knee Arthroplasty (PKA), you can avoid unnecessarily removing ligaments that are important to a natural feeling knee and help your patients get back to normal activity faster.1-2*
Benefits of PKA:
Higher Patient Satisfaction
More partial knee patients reported forgetting they even have an artificial joint3-4
Fewer and Less Severe Complications
Less overall risk of post-op complications than Total Knee Arthroplasty5
Cost Savings to Surgeon
Lower Costs and Operative Time6*
Improved Range of Motion7
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Talk to your surgeon about whether joint replacement or another treatment is right for you and the risks of the procedure, including the risk of implant wear, loosening or failure, and pain, swelling and infection.
For printed information on joint replacement, call 1-800-447-5633.