Rehabilitation Equipment

The bandage can be removed on the morning following surgery. The puncture wounds will have a stitch or a steristrip tape keeping the wound edges together and will be covered by a small sticky dressing. Replace the dressing with an elastoplast dressing if necessary but keep the puncture wounds covered and keep the knee dry…

The operation is performed when there is early wear in one side of the knee in order to slow down the wear and to ‘buy time’ for the knee. It is also performed in certain ligament injuries where instability of the knee is associated with bowing of the leg.

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These exercises should be started as soon as you have regained muscle control of your knee. They will be shown to you by the physiotherapist when you are in hospital. The exercises are designed to help you regain full range of movement and muscle strength in your leg. It is equally important to be able…

For a video on the operative technique for Meniscal AllograftTransplantation please go to the VuMedi website where Mr Spalding hasuploaded a video of the technique – click image on the left to be taken to site.