Back in 2013, Conformis presented a study on the cadaveric kinematic comparisons between our custom made total knee replacement and an off the shelf knee replacement in nine matched pairs of specimens. This was the first known study of its kind to take two separate implants and put them head to head to see which one could better approximate the natural movement patterns of the knee. This study was completed at The Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, California.

What the team at The Scripps Clinic found was that specimens implanted with the Conformis knee more closely approximate normal femoral rollback and tibial adduction than the knee implanted with the off the shelf knee replacement.

Also, they found that the knees implanted with the Conformis iTotal achieved a laxity that was significantly closer to the normal knee.

This combination of a more normal performing knee led the authors to believe that the customized Conformis iTotal can better address the issues of patient dissatisfaction, which ranges from 14% - 39%, because of the iTotals ability to more closely maintain normal kinematics.

Attached is the study which was initially presented at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society in 2013. This was the first only many studies showing just how superior the Conformis iTotal is to any other knee replacement in the marketplace. Off the shelf, knees are all about compromises and limitations. Those can now be a thing of the past. Patients can now receive a knee replacement that gives them the best chance for the most significant outcome.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/conformisfiles/1424800962_MK_02791_AA_Kinematics_Patil_et_al_Scripps_RGB.pdf