Knee Replacement and Knee Surgery
What is Knee Replacement Surgery?
Total knee replacement surgery, also called knee arthroplasty, is surgery to correct knee pain and knee arthritis, including osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, traumatic arthritis and other knee joint problems.During this joint replacement surgery, your orthopedic surgeon removes damaged bone and cartilage and uses metal and plastic implants to resurface your knee joint.
Total knee replacement surgery is one of the most successful surgical procedures for treating chronic and debilitating knee pain that hasn’t responded to other therapies.
More than 540,000 total knee replacement surgeries are performed annually in the United States, including 15,900 right here at Hackensack Meridian Health.
What are the Different Types of Knee Replacement Surgeries?
Our surgeons perform:
- Total knee replacement
- Partial knee replacement (“unicompartmental” and “patellofemoral”)
- Bilateral knee replacement
- Revision of a prior joint replacement
- Robotic-assisted total knee replacement