Soft Tissue Balancing in Total Knee Arthroplasty

Part I. Native Knee

1. Anatomy and Biomechanics of the Native Knee and Its Relevance for Total Knee Replacement
Kyle Muckenhirn, Jorge Chahla, Robert F. LaPrade

2. Soft Tissue Balance of the Native Knee Provides Guidance for Balancing a Total Knee Arthroplasty
Joshua D. Roth, Stephen M. Howell

3. Kinematics of the Normal Native Knee
Jan Victor

Part II. Operative Procedure 1: Primary TKA

4. Primary Principles in Soft Tissue Balancing
Jacobus H. Müller, Willem Merwe

5. Measured (Anatomical Reference) Resection Technique for Cruciate-Retaining Total Knee Arthroplasty
Shaw Akizuki, Hiroshi Horiuchi

6. PS: Gap Technique
Myung Chul Lee

7. Bicruciate-Retaining TKA: How to Achieve Near-Normal Kinematics
Rob Middleton, Andrew Price

8. Five Quality Assurance Steps for Balancing a Kinematically Aligned Total Knee Arthroplasty
Stephen M. Howell, Alexander J. Nedopil

Part III. Operative Procedure 2: Primary TKA

9. Operative Procedure: Varus Knee
David Figueroa, Francisco Figueroa

10. Valgus Knee: Severe Cases Included
Jaroslaw Czekaj, Timothy Lording, Sébastien Lustig

11. Complicated Cases: Recurvatum and Severe Contracture
Ricardo Varatojo, Ricardo Telles Freitas, Mário Vale

12. Operative Procedure for Primary TKR: How to Increase ROM
Samih Tarabichi, Ahmed El-Naggar, Mohamed Adi

Part IV. Assessment in Primary TKA

13. Assessment in Primary TKA: Intraoperative Assessment Tensor
Tomoyuki Matsumoto, Hirotsugu Muratsu, Ryosuke Kuroda

14. Intraoperative Assessment with Computer Navigation
Gianmarco V. M. Regazzola, Myles R. J. Coolican

Part V. Clinical Relevance: Primary TKA

15. Postoperative Changes in Soft Tissue Balance
Hitoshi Sekiya

16. Intraoperative Soft-Tissue Balance and Clinical Results (ROM, Function)
Eun-Kyoo Song, Jong-Keun Seon, Young-Joo Shin, Hong-Ahn Lim

17. Soft Tissue Balance, Kinematics, and Patient Satisfaction
Shuichi Matsuda

Part VI. Patella

18. Surgical Techniques to Avoid Patellar Maltracking in Total Knee Arthroplasty
Kelly Vince

Part VII. Trouble Shooting

19. Trouble Shooting: Intraoperative MCL Injury
Carlos Eduardo Silveira Franciozi, Rogério Teixeira Carvalho, Yasuo Itami, Marcus Vinicius Malheiros Luzo

20. Extensor Mechanism Rupture
Nicolaas C. Budhiparama, Nadia N. Ifran, Sébastien Lustig, Michel Bonnin, Sebastien Parratte

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