GRAPEVINE, Texas — Results showed severe idiopathic arthrofibrosis after total knee arthroplasty treated with irradiation and revision with a rotating hinge maintained a gain in range of motion with reliable flexion contracture correction.
“Future research is desperately needed in this area, more specifically in the form of multi-institutional collaboration and, ideally, a randomized controlled trial to determine the relative efficacy of irradiation vs. the rotating hinge in terms of the relative contribution to our results,” Andrew M. Schneider, MD, said in his presentation
