Always under an artificial knee

Always under an artificial knee

How long does an implant last?

More and more people leave their worn knee replacement surgery and Paul Reich and their colleagues at the Medical Center Leeuwarden are gearing up for a busy future. "And we make us some concerns about wear and especially in young patients."

 Art knee prosthesis

Because it is fast with artificial knees, faster than the hip prostheses

"The last twenty years has doubled, but the number of knee replacements is eight times as many as twenty years ago," says Reich. 

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Another figure: there are 20,000 knee surgeries done each year. In twenty years there will be expected to more than 50,000. The increase shows itself fairly well explained, say doctors.

First, aging plays a major role. Moreover, young people and older people move more than once, causing joint problems likely to lead to restrictions. A third explanation is the increasing number of obese people. Their heavy weight takes its toll, especially the knees.

Short-lived artificial knee

Wear of the cartilage in the knee joints is often painful. Yet physicians prefer to wait to replace the "In the past you got under the seventy years no prosthesis, there you were too young. That age moves forward now