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A person may have knee surgery to treat pain in the joint due to an injury, such as torn cartilage or a torn ligament. It can also treat other conditions, such as osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and post-traumatic arthritis.

Former professional football players who suffer tears to their anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in the course of their careers appear to face an elevated long-term risk of heart attack, according to a study led by investigators at Harvard Medical School.

Researchers from the Faculty of Chemical Technology, Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania are developing an artificial bone that can be used to treat osteoarthritis. The bi-functional composite imitates the complex osteochondral structure of a joint, i.e. both cartilage and bone tissues.

A knee infection is a serious medical condition that often requires immediate and aggressive treatment. When bacteria contaminate the synovial fluid that lubricates your knee joint, an infection called a septic joint can be the result.

A team from Finland and the Netherlands may have improved on the process of evaluating tissue integrity. Their work,  Arthroscopic near infrared spect...

In an analysis of 112 records from 30 physical therapy (PT) sites regarding care for patients who had undergone total knee replacement (TKR) surgery, ...

Patients frequently experience severe chronic pain following knee operations. Although the pain is thought to be due to damage to small nerves, it was hitherto impossible to demonstrate this by imaging. Two studies conducted by an interdisciplinary team of researchers led by radiologist Georg Riegle...

Researchers have developed a novel therapeutic treatment that has the potential to stop knee and spine osteoarthritis in its tracks.

Tranexamic acid (TXA) is an effective agent used for reducing perioperative blood loss and decreasing the potential for postoperative hemarthrosis. We hypothesized that patients who had received intraoperative TXA during total ankle arthroplasty (TAA) wou

Helping patients to better manage stress and improve coping strategies related to pain may minimize the need for opioids following ankle fracture surgery, according to research published in the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.