Personalized Hip and Knee Joint Replacement

This open access book describes and illustrates the surgical techniques, implants, and technologies used for the purpose of personalizedimplantation of hip and knee components. This new and flourishing treatment philosophy offers important benefits over conventional systematictechniques, including component positioning appropriate to individual anatomy, improved surgical reproducibility and prosthetic performance, anda reduction in complications. The techniques described in the book aim to reproduce patients' native anatomy and physiological joint laxity, therebyimproving the prosthetic hip/knee kinematics and functional outcomes in the quest of the forgotten joint. They include kinematically aligned total knee/total hip arthroplasty, partialknee replacement, and hip resurfacing. The relevance of available and emerging technological toolsforthese personalized approaches is alsoexplained, with coverage of, for example, robotics, computer-assisted surgery, and augmented reality. Contributions from surgeons who are considered world leaders in diverse fields of this novel surgical philosophy make this open access book will invaluable toa wide readership, fromtrainees at all levels to consultants practicing lower limb surgery