Does knee arthroplasty with a medially conforming ball-and-socket tibiofemoral articulation provide better function?
Both implant designs similarly relieved pain and improved function. The medially conforming ball-and-socket articulation provided better high-end function as reflected by the Total Knee Function Questionnaire.
Saturated hyperbaric exposures followed by nominally safe decompression led to activation of platelets and the fibrinolytic system. The probable mechanism for the activation of platelets and fibrinolysis is contact with the surface of evolved bubbles in the divers' circulation.