Degenerative conditions of the knee place an increasing burden on health economies and lead to pain and functional loss for sufferers. Although arthroplasty may not offer a level of functional restoration that meets all patients' expectations, joint preservation through osteotomy is a viable option in younger, more physically active patients.

This volume is a comprehensive technical guide to performing knee-preserving surgery to treat degenerative conditions and malalignment-associated knee instability. Drawing on their extensive experience of these procedures, the authors provide valuable insights into identifying patients who may benefit, as well as planning and performing the procedures with a high degree of precision, and explaining the results that can be achieved.

This book both initiates novices and provides technical tips for experienced surgeons, and as such is an indispensible resource for all clinicians who treat patients with knee conditions.

<p>Part 1. Basic science

From Hippocrates to Coventry and beyond - the history of joint realignment
Load, alignment and wear
Principles of alignment correction surgery
Part II. Realignment surgery (HTO/DFO)
Outcomes of surgery for medial arthrosis
Outcomes of surgery for lateral arthrosis
Outcomes of surgery for sagittal instability
Outcomes of surgery for coronal instability
Part III. Surgical technique
Medial opening wedge high tibial osteotomy
Lateral closing wedge high tibial osteotomy
Lateral opening wedge distal femoral osteotomy
Medial closing wedge distal femoral osteotomy
Lateral opening wedge high tibial osteotomy
Medial closing wedge high tibial osteotomy
Sagittal plane correction
PSI for High Tibial HTO
Navigation for HTO
Part IV. Revision surgery
Indications and Outcomes of revision to another HTO
Revision to TKR
Outcomes of Total Knee Arthroplasty for failed osteotomy.</p><p></p>