Zimmer Holdings, Inc. may launch two “significant” new products at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons’ (AAOS) February 2012 annual meeting in San Francisco. That’s what Mizuho Securities Analyst Mike Matson wrote to investors on December 9. Matson said the products would include a new knee to replace the company’s “aging” NexGen knee and vitamin [...]

The numbers just keep going up. Knee replacement surgery among the middle-aged in the U.S. increased two and a half times between 1997 and 2009 according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), as reported in MedPage Today. The hospitalization rate for women ages 45 to 64 for knee arthroplasty increased 157% from 16 [...]

After 20 years of use, total knee replacements are still trucking. John B. Meding, M.D. of the St. Francis Medical Group, Beech Grove, Indiana, evaluated 1,757 total knee replacements (TKR) that had been implanted between 1975 and 1989. He found that 128 of the patients, whose average age was 82, were still living. Despite the [...]

You might not have liked geometry, but due to the efforts of the ConforMIS team, damaged knees all over will benefit from it. The company is reporting receipt of FDA 510(k) clearance for its iTotal CR Knee Replacement System (let the marketing begin!). As indicated by ConforMIS, its iTotal CR is the only true patient-specific [...]

Anatomically, well, the knee pretty much stays the same. The technology to handle its issues, fortunately, evolves. And you might now say that Wright Medical Technology has the market on knee technology evolution. The company has announced the launch of the EVOLUTION Medial-Pivot Knee System, which features enhanced instrumentation, more sizing options and a posterior [...]