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Loose knee implant

Joint Replacements | Last Active: Dec 4 12:58pm | Replies (23)

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My replacement hasn’t been right since day 1. It’s been two years and I’ve had PT, have exercised…specifically to strengthen areas surrounding the knee…and I’ve had multiple surgeons tell me I need to start over. They look at the x-rays and tell me that the alignment looks good but that it’s obviously loose. I just saw a surgeon that says the issue is that the spacer that was put in is too thin which is what is causing it to be loose so they said they can replace that instead of starting over. After two years of pain, I hope he’s right.

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Did you get that taken care of? Here too I had 22 month old replacement horrible since day one. Ts felt unstable, loose, shifting, etc…. had a second replacement new surgeon and he did a great job. He is doing my revision next week. Whether it’s just a spacer change or whole new knee he won’t know until he gets in there. He did know from just manipulating my leg it was definitely loose. This has been the case from the way beginning.