Wright Medical has released EVOLUTION, a new medial pivot knee replacement system. Like the company’s ADVANCE knee, it features a ball-in-socket mechanism on the medial side that patients seem to prefer over traditional designs. This evening two hospitals, the St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee and St. Vincent Hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas, each will be doing a live webcast of the implantation and everyone is invited to participate.
Inspired by this patient preference, Wright created the EVOLUTION(TM) Knee System to enhance its medial-pivot technology by offering more sizing options, improved instrumentation and a medial-pivoting posterior stabilized option. These enhancements were achieved through state-of-the-art engineering concepts and manufacturing technologies, including the use of CT-scans to produce implants which more accurately replicate natural knee anatomy, as well as features to aid in implantation through less-invasive surgical exposures. The resulting EVOLUTION(TM) Knee System is designed to ease rehabilitation and address stability concerns which may be experienced by some total knee replacement recipients.
Video and links after the fold:
5pm CDT webcast: David DeBoer, M.D., St. Thomas Hospital…
7pm CDT webcast: Lowry Barnes, M.D., from St. Vincent Hospital…
Press release: Wright Medical Group, Inc. Announces Launch of the EVOLUTION(TM) Medial-Pivot Knee System…
