Your joint replacement is constructed of titanium, chrome cobalt, and polyethylene ... easier to exercise regularly and increases your quality of life. Mild to moderate knee pain can often be ...

Knee replacement surgery is now a standard procedure ... Implants may contain titanium or a cobalt-chromium-based alloy. While this isn’t so common, if you already know you have a sensitivity ...

Zimmer Biomet has scored an FDA clearance for a new component of its total knee replacement offering ... cemented knee replacements made of cobalt-chrome alloys, causing pain and an eventual ...

A person may opt for a joint replacement if arthritis or a traumatic ... a strong but light metal cobalt-chrome, another type of metal ceramic silicon rubber for fingers Designers of artificial ...

Titanium or cobalt-chromium are the most common metals ... While that’s small in terms of percentages, the volume of knee and hip replacement surgeries means tens of thousands of people are ...

“Now, I’m more confident about a modern hip replacement than I am ... in cementless fixation during total knee arthroplasty (TKA) as well. Cobalt-chromium and titanium are commonly used ...

Most arthroplasty implants include metallic components including known neurotoxic elements such as cobalt and titanium ... exactly half the group had knee replacement, 49% had hip implants ...

Conventional knee replacement joints contain metal, usually cobalt chrome, alongside a plastic insert. These types of joints can also cause problems for the 10% to 15% of people who are sensitive ...

Key Characteristics and Primary Uses The key characteristics of the knee replacement market lie in the materials used for joint replacement components, such as titanium, cobalt-chromium alloys, and ...

Doctors sometimes recommend a hypersensitivity test before an implant is chosen for joint replacement ... after knee replacement. Nickel is responsible in the majority of cases, while cobalt ...

Patients with metal-containing joint replacements had significantly higher concentrations of cobalt in their cerebrospinal ... Almost exactly half the group had knee replacement, 49% had hip ...