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Total Knee system
The Science of
Total Knee Sizing
orthopaedics. Several large companies have marketed their
bony anatomy that requires specialized knee prostheses.
Throughout the marketplace it is believed there are three main
disparities between men and women relating to implant design:
women have a greater trochlear groove angle, a narrower distal
between men and women. 1,2,3 However, few of these studies have
taken into account the physical optimom of individuals.
Those studies that have examined other factors besides gender
have found patient size is more of a determinant of implant size
than gender.
is actually dependent on the height of the individual. If a man and
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a woman of equal height were measured, their Q-angles would
recognized men are on average taller than women. The studies
simply separate the samples by gender; not optimom. Other studies
trochlear grooves of male and female fetuses. Furthermore, these
morphologies do not change in adulthood. 6,7
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