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DECRYPTION – Being able to “forget” your device is a sign of success, more often for the hip than for the knee. New technologies promise better operations.
Claude, an 80-year-old from Lyon, suffered from osteoarthritis for a long time, which justified the installation of mechanical prostheses after insufficient drug treatments to manage the disease. The first prosthesis in the right knee, implanted in 2021, and the second, three years later, in the hip and on the same side. If this last device is ancient history for her and does not cause any sensation of stiffness or even more so pain, for the knee, things are different.
«I have had two operations for this prosthesis knee and even today I have a pain of 4 out of 10, which sometimes wakes me up at night and which forces me to help myself with a walking cane, and to go down the stairs leaning on the banister .» In a few months, she will consult her surgeon again to hope to correct this situation, but her case is close to the reality of many people who have surgery on this joint.
Because, if around 95% of operated patients are overall satisfied…
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