Total Knee Replacement
A knee replacement resurfaces the worn ends of the joint and rebalances the soft tissue around it. Done well, it removes the arthritis pain and restores a knee you can trust on stairs, hills, and uneven ground.
- Typical length
- 60–90 minutes
- Going home
- Same day for most patients
How it's approached
- 01
Alignment is the whole game
Dr. Elbuluk's published research compares kinematic and mechanical alignment strategies in knee replacement. Restoring your knee's own geometry — rather than a textbook average — is what makes a replaced knee feel like a knee.
- 02
Balance you can feel
Ligament balance through the full arc of motion is checked and re-checked during surgery. An imbalanced knee is stable on the table and unhappy on the stairs.
- 03
Motion starts immediately
Bending begins the day of surgery. Early, consistent motion in the first two weeks is the single biggest predictor of how the knee ends up.
Recovery
What the weeks after
actually look like.
Day 0
Surgery, then first steps
Days 1–7
Home and moving
Weeks 2–3
Off the walker, back behind the wheel
Weeks 4–6
Back to work and out of the house
Also treated
Total Hip Replacement
Arthritis in the hip shows up as groin pain, a limp, and the slow disappearance of things you used to do without thinking.
Read morePartial Knee Replacement
When arthritis is confined to one compartment of the knee, there is no reason to replace the rest of it.
Read moreRobotic & Computer-Assisted Surgery
Robotic and navigation platforms turn a surgical plan into sub-millimeter execution.
Read more
Next step
The consultation is where
you find out if you even need surgery.
Bring your imaging, your questions, and the list of things you've stopped doing. You'll leave with a plan — surgical or not — and a realistic timeline for getting back to them.