Steve’s Osteotomy Surgery
(0:02) Brilliant. Four months post-surgery. (0:04) Before we did this, it says your original operation was four years ago, five years ago? (0:12) Probably three years.
It was the year before I met you the first time. (0:15) And how much pain were you in with the knee before we did knee surgery? (0:19) It was every night. It wouldn’t feel too bad in the day, but once I rested and sat down, it was there.
(0:26) Could you walk good distances? (0:28) I would try and obviously battle through it, and then afterwards the pain was there. (0:34) Okay. And we can see the original, we can see our scars there from our work.
(0:40) There’s another little scar here on the outside. Can you lift it up for us in the air and bend it for us? (0:46) And how much pain are you in from it now? (0:48) None, zero. (0:49) Can we see you walking? (0:50) I feel like I’m training myself to walk without thinking about walking.
(0:52) Yes. (0:56) And then come back. (1:00) Brilliant.
So we can see we’ve put you slightly to balance. (1:03) So if we look on the x-rays over here, we’ve got a weight-bearing line from the femur down to the tibia. (1:12) We can see it’s completely, well, it’s just about skimming the medial side of the knee as opposed to being in the middle here.
(1:19) And we can see the previous fixation from the fracture that you had. (1:23) And then if we go to our long leg x-ray, we can see that we’ve done femur and tibia. (1:32) And we can see we did a closing wedge here on the femur.
(1:36) And we’ve done our opening wedge on the tibia with our complex reconstruction. (1:41) And then if we annotate that in distance, we go down the middle of the femur to the middle of the ankle. (1:52) We can see we’ve got it very nicely into the lateral compartment.
