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Partial Knee Resurfacing (PKR)

There are three compartments to the knee: the medial (inside) compartment, the lateral (outside) compartment and the patellofemoral (kneecap) compartment. Depending on where the arthritis affects your knee, partial knee resurfacing may be an option for you. PKR is a growing procedure. There are approximately 70,000 partial knee resurfacing procedures done in the U.S. each year.¹

Partial knee resurfacing (PKR) is a surgical procedure for relieving arthritis in one compartment of the knee. With PKR, only the damaged surface of the knee joint is replaced, helping to minimize trauma to healthy bone and tissue. The surgeon removes only damaged bone in the affected knee and fits the implant to that bone. Because the PKR artificial joints are smaller than total knee implants, the surgical incision may be smaller as well. Since most of the knee joint is unaffected and the basic knee structure remains intact, post- operative pain may be reduced and the recovery period may be shorter than total knee replacement.²

Partial Knee Resurfacing Products

• Triathlon Partial Knee Resurfacing is for a procedure that resurfaces only the affected compartment of the arthritic femur and the tibia.
  Learn more about Triathlon Unicompartmental Knee Resurfacing



• Avon^® Patellofemoral Knee System is for a procedure that resurfaces the worn patella and the trochlea (the groove at the end of the thighbone).
  Learn More about Avon® Patellofemoral Knee Resurfacing

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References

1. 2008 Projection, Millennium Research Group, 2005.
2. Newman, John H.,Unicompartmental Knee Replacement, The Knee, 7 (2000), pp. 63-70.