There are OA knee braces, with an air bladder than can be used to increase
knee varus and shift weight to the lateral compartment--I have used these
with some success. On the other hand, high tibial osteotomies give
excellent results in some cases.
Herb Silver
At 11:18 PM 6/24/99 +0530, you wrote:
> Dear friends, this is responsible for
>the typical gait of these patients.My question to house is "is it possible
>to shift the weight of these patients away from medial compartment to the
>latral compartment using some orthotics or some type of footwear" .hence
>not only relieving the pain but correction of gait can take place. thanks
>all Dr.Sarveshwar Chander Sood,
> & Head,
> & Rehabilitation,
> SBLS Civil Hospital Jalandhar city, Punjab state, India.
> Res:812/1 Housing Board Colony Model Town, Jalandhar city, India
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