Medial Opening Wedge High Tibial Osteotomy With Early Full Weight Bearing

Prospective evaluation of a new plate fixator for valgus-producing medial open-wedge high tibial osteotomy

“…Reported implant-related complications after owHTO with the TomoFix™ plate vary between 2 and 6 %. [8,13,18,19,28,32,36,45,49,50,65,69,70,72]. No complication such as screw loosening, screw breakage, or plate breakage was observed in our series.…”

Is overcorrection preferable for repair of degenerated articular cartilage after open-wedge high tibial osteotomy?

“…With regard to clinical relevance, this study supported the reasonableness of the most frequently used target of limb alignment after HTO, which is a femorotibial angle of 170° or a mechanical axis crossing the tibia plateau at 62 % from the medial edge of the tibial plateau to its entire width [3,6,7,23,24], because no significant differences were observed in terms of the ratio of cartilage repair in the medial compartment of the femorotibial joint.…”

Sports and Physical Activities of Elderly Patients with Medial Compartment Knee Osteoarthritis after High Tibial Osteotomy

“…Postoperative residual pain and loss of muscle strength might be a larger burden to these patients than previously considered. 6) Takeuchi et al 17) reported that early weight-bearing exercises enabled full weight bearing at 2 weeks after OWHTO. Accelerating the start of walking postoperatively could help to maintain patients' motivation for rehabilitation and resuming SPA.…”