Journey 2 BCS knee system

Commonest health problem in today’s society is ‘Arthritis’. One in every 5 persons has some amount of arthritis. In people over 65 yrs age every second person will be on some form of arthritis treatment. Unfortunately some of these patients go on to develop severe arthritis of the knee joint where sometimes ‘Total Knee Replacement Surgery’ (TKR) is the only choice.

Worldwide every year millions of TKRs are performed. In India yearly more than 1 lakh surgeries are performed and the number is rising. In general TKRs are very successful in giving good pain relief and allowing the patients to perform day-to-day activities but there is a high degree of dissatisfaction remains because the joint doesn’t feel normal and they cannot do high demand activities.

Traditionally all the existing designs of TKR prosthesis were based on poor understanding of the knee biomechanics and they are designed as simple hinge joints without recreating the complex kinematics of natural knee. This results in less bending of the knee, some pain and weakness, easy tiredness of the knee muscles and the inability to do high demand activities like sports, running, carrying heavy objects etc.

Journey 2 BCS Knee Prosthesis is a new generation knee prosthesis which has been engineered through physiological matching Technology using ‘life modeller’ and delivers unmatched Function, Motion and Durability The knee is designed in a such a way that it matches the natural knee closest in kinematics (movements and stability) and Verilast technology materials have been used.

Thus patients feel that it is very much like a natural knee, strength and stability are very much like normal knee so they are able to high demand activities. As it completely mimics the natural kinematics of the normal knee deep flexion including squatting is possible. The materials uses (Oxinium & XLPE) are so wear resistant that wear is 4900 times more resistant than the conventional material that is Cobalt chrome and polyethylene. Landmark hospital is performing the maximum number of surgeries in South India