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Alternatives to KR?

Joint Replacements | Last Active: Dec 11, 2023 | Replies (16)

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@zacklucy

Thank you, alexalee. I’m a layman but it seems to me that a simple device such as the one Sparta is working on shouldn’t be a more difficult engineering feat than going to the moon. Artificial knees are an amazing technological development, and millions are thankful for them, but they seem to me to be a “brute force” solution in an era of increasingly sophisticated medical technology.

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As one orthopedist told me, “nothing will ever be as good as your own knee” & I found that to be true, having recently had a TKR. Unfortunately, knees wear out, but I do believe that somewhere in the (perhaps distant) future, people will look back on TKRs as a barbaric approach.