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Smith & Nephew launches new hinge knee implant
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Smith & Nephew introduced its Legion HK Hinge Knee implant to surgeons in the United States and Canada.
According to a company press release, the Legion HK Hinge Knee is the first hinged knee to be designed using normal knee kinematics, and has been designed to closely match the knee’s original anatomy while also restoring more normal function. An extension of the Legion Total Knee System, the implant allows surgeons to transition intraoperatively from a constrained revision implant to a hinged assembly using a minimal number of instruments.
“This signals a real change in the hinge knee landscape,” Gaurav Agarwal, divisional senior vice president and general manager for Smith & Nephew’s Advanced Surgical Devices division, stated in the release. “With this implant, we are not only simplifying the procedure, we are transforming these complex surgeries from salvage operations to true joint-rescue procedures.”