ArticleEFORT open reviews2018
Kinematic alignment technique for total hip and knee arthroplasty: The personalized implant positioning surgery.
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- Does Accelerometer-based Navigation Have Any Clinical Benefit Compared with Conventional TKA? A Systematic Review.Clinical orthopaedics and related research · 2019Pooled it
- Highly variable coronal tibial and femoral alignment in osteoarthritic knees: a systematic review.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2019Pooled it
- Does the transverse acetabular ligament-guided cup anteversion fulfil the functional requirements in total hip arthroplasty?Journal of experimental orthopaedics · 2025Article
- [Technological Innovation in Total Knee Arthroplasty: Navigation, Robotics, and Customization].Revista brasileira de ortopedia · 2025Article
- Technological Innovation in Total Knee Arthroplasty: Navigation, Robotics, and Customization.Revista brasileira de ortopedia · 2025Article
- Patient specific variables impact sensitivity to association between joint balance and 2 Year outcomes.Journal of orthopaedics · 2025Article
- The Orientation of the Prosthetic Trochlear Angle Is Predictable in Kinematically Aligned Total Knee Arthroplasty.Journal of personalized medicine · 2025Article
- Optimizing Acetabular Positioning: A Comprehensive Review of Contemporary Strategies in Total Hip Arthroplasty.Cureus · 2024Review
- Knees with anteromedial osteoarthritis show a substantial phenotypic variation prior and following medial unicompartmental knee arthroplasty.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2023Article
- Definitions and consequences of current alignment techniques and phenotypes in total knee arthroplasty (TKA) - there is no winner yet.Journal of experimental orthopaedics · 2023Review
- Personalisation and customisation in total knee arthroplasty: the paradox of custom knee implants.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2023Article
- Navigated, gap-balanced, adjusted mechanical alignment achieves alignment and balancing goals in a very high percentage but with partially non-anatomical resections.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2023Article
- Functional Femoral Anteversion: Axial Rotation of the Femur and its Implications for Stem Version Targets in Total Hip Arthroplasty.Arthroplasty today · 2022Article
- Medial proximal tibial angle at the posterior tibial plateau represents the pre-arthritic constitutional medial proximal tibial angle in anterior cruciate ligament-intact, advanced osteoarthritis of the knee.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2022Article
- Personalized Hip Joint Replacement with Large Diameter Head: Current Concepts.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Review
- An artificial neural network model based on standing lateral radiographs for predicting sitting pelvic tilt in healthy adults.Frontiers in surgery · 2022Article
- The Accuracy of Patient-Specific Instrumentation with Laser Guidance in a Dynamic Total Hip Arthroplasty: A Radiological Evaluation.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Total hip arthroplasty planning.EFORT open reviews · 2019Review
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Abstract
Conventional techniques for hip and knee arthroplasty have led to good long-term clinical outcomes, but complications remain despite better surgical precision and improvements in implant design and quality.Technological improvements and a better understanding of joint kinematics have facilitated the progression to 'personalized' implant positioning (kinematic alignment) for total hip (THA) and knee (TKA) arthroplasty, the true value of which remains to be determined.By achieving a true knee resurfacing, the kinematic alignment (KA) technique for TKA aims at aligning the components with the physiological kinematic axes of the knee and restoring the constitutional tibio-femoral joint line frontal and axial orientation and soft-tissue laxity.The KA technique for THA aims at restoring the native 'combined femoro-acetabular anteversion' and the hip's centre of rotation, and occasionally adjusting the cup position and design based on the assessment of the individual spine-hip relation.The key element for optimal prosthetic joint kinematics (hip or knee) is to reproduce the femoral anatomy.The transverse acetabular ligament (TAL) is the reference landmark to adjust the cup position. Cite this article:
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