Ode to total knee arthroplasty: (with apologies to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Paul Revere).

摘要

Listen, my friends, and you shall hear A tale as impressive as Paul Revere. A story of stiff and painful knees, Deformed and disabled by arthritic disease. A tale of treatment of gonarthrosis, With realignment and joint prosthesis. Reported by Gluck in eighteen nine-oh, Hardly a surgeon is now alive Who remembers that famous man and year.Stability, mobility, freedom from pain Describe a knee which needs no cane. Painful walking and limited range Describe a knee which needs a change. Nonoperative care can work quite well, Until the joint begins to swell. And scopes can offer a brief delay, Until it's time for a TKA.