Please can you advise of alternatives to knee replacement surgery? Total knee replacement surgery remains the gold standard when it comes to treating those who have severe end-stage osteoarthritis, such as yourself. An alternative to total knee replacement, depending on your circumstances, is a partial knee replacement — or unicompartmental knee arthroplasty — where just the damaged part of the knee is replaced. The ten-year survival rate of the partial replacement is greater than 90 per cent, and this procedure does not preclude a full knee replacement later, should this become advisable. I must tell you that some form of replacement surgery is the only valid way ahead for your degree of osteoarthritis at the moment.

Source: Daily Mail July 06, 2020 22:04 UTC