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anonymous said:
Wish I'd never had a Conformis CR! It was a mess and had to be revised. Femoral rotation, tbia plate rotated. Pain thru the roof. I lost an inch of bone, lost my job, doc is going scott free no one cares. Why would anyone think a custom knee off a diseased bone is a good idea
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You could at least try and get a little more creative - so obvious a fake post
 












anonymous said:
You could at least try and get a little more creative - so obvious a fake post
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Really! You thought my post was a fake! You have no clue! The Conformis CR has ruined my life! You just need to spend 22 months sitting in a chair in so much pain you can't move - then a doctor who said he would help figure out what was wrong with what he did - when he had all the evidence in front of him but his ego was too big for him see.... this knee is crap and I lived with it for 2 years. You cannot make a replaced knee from a damaged knee and expect it to work.

Yes I lost my job, and yes I had to have it revised and I still can't work... tell me again this is a fake post..... This folks is what is wrong - idiots who want to discount real life! Live mine for a while and just try to say this...perhaps you should try to learn and not tell people they are fake!
 






anonymous said:
Really! You thought my post was a fake! You have no clue! The Conformis CR has ruined my life! You just need to spend 22 months sitting in a chair in so much pain you can't move - then a doctor who said he would help figure out what was wrong with what he did - when he had all the evidence in front of him but his ego was too big for him see.... this knee is crap and I lived with it for 2 years. You cannot make a replaced knee from a damaged knee and expect it to work.

Yes I lost my job, and yes I had to have it revised and I still can't work... tell me again this is a fake post..... This folks is what is wrong - idiots who want to discount real life! Live mine for a while and just try to say this...perhaps you should try to learn and not tell people they are fake!
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LMAO you really are a turd
 












anonymous said:
Really! You thought my post was a fake! You have no clue! The Conformis CR has ruined my life! You just need to spend 22 months sitting in a chair in so much pain you can't move - then a doctor who said he would help figure out what was wrong with what he did - when he had all the evidence in front of him but his ego was too big for him see.... this knee is crap and I lived with it for 2 years. You cannot make a replaced knee from a damaged knee and expect it to work.

Yes I lost my job, and yes I had to have it revised and I still can't work... tell me again this is a fake post..... This folks is what is wrong - idiots who want to discount real life! Live mine for a while and just try to say this...perhaps you should try to learn and not tell people they are fake!
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Let me explain something to you:
Any companies total knee whether it be Zimmer Stryker Conformis or even these generic knees such as United etc
Will work will function will do the job
PERIOD if they are put in correctly the first time and you as a patient gets off your ass and pushes themselves thru the pt and rehab and makes they new knee function as it should
I know as i have both my knees replaced and have been selling implants for many years
All the people on these sites are homers for their company that their knee is the best etc but the bottom line is this
They all will work as expected
Its how long they last is the question

So put the remote down get off your whiney fat ass and do your pt walk bend and get a job
 






anonymous said:
Let me explain something to you:
Any companies total knee whether it be Zimmer Stryker Conformis or even these generic knees such as United etc
Will work will function will do the job
PERIOD if they are put in correctly the first time and you as a patient gets off your ass and pushes themselves thru the pt and rehab and makes they new knee function as it should
I know as i have both my knees replaced and have been selling implants for many years
All the people on these sites are homers for their company that their knee is the best etc but the bottom line is this
They all will work as expected
Its how long they last is the question

So put the remote down get off your whiney fat ass and do your pt walk bend and get a job
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Interesting... Love the personal attacks! lol People who do that know they don't have a leg to stand on with their lame arguments. It is clear you don't get it! If you think your rudeness to me is endearing yourself to others who might think about using that knee...think again. This is how I was treated when the Conformis CR failed...... So it seems to be a company thing???? Rotation of the femoral implant was not something I did - it was the Conformis CR....I was treated, just like you have, that it was my fault then I was ignored hoping I would go away. Making a knee for/from a damaged bone is never a good idea... it spells failure...I suspect your rude anger comes from my post possibly impeding your income. Don't accuse or get rude unless you REALLY know all the facts.

I hope people at Conformis see your rude behavior... unless they feel this is how you treat people..... If so then things are worse than I thought....
 






anonymous said:
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Interesting... Love the personal attacks! lol People who do that know they don't have a leg to stand on with their lame arguments. It is clear you don't get it! If you think your rudeness to me is endearing yourself to others who might think about using that knee...think again. This is how I was treated when the Conformis CR failed...... So it seems to be a company thing???? Rotation of the femoral implant was not something I did - it was the Conformis CR....I was treated, just like you have, that it was my fault then I was ignored hoping I would go away. Making a knee for/from a damaged bone is never a good idea... it spells failure...I suspect your rude anger comes from my post possibly impeding your income. Don't accuse or get rude unless you REALLY know all the facts.

I hope people at Conformis see your rude behavior... unless they feel this is how you treat people..... If so then things are worse than I thought....
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It sounds like you don't fully understand the process of how the knee is created or what the scans accomplish in relation to "damaged bone". This is not your fault and should have been more accurately explained to you from the surgeon's end. If you're deformity was significant your surgeon should not have proceeded with the ConforMIS case as there is a recommended maximum range of varus/valgus/flexion contracture that should be respected with ConforMIS.

When you say "rotated" I am not sure if you mean the doctor rotated the femoral cut block and then made his/her bone cuts, thus placing the femur in external rotation when implanted - which is a no no for a ConforMIS implant and would cause cuts and a fit that doesn't match the iView; again the cuts are based on neutral implant placement. External rotation is common practice in off-the-shelf knees because they are symmetric items (in most cases) being placed in an asymmetric space. The external rotation compromise closes the lateral flexion gap that is created when lopping off bone on the lateral side of your knee when the implant is symmetric and the polys are level. If you externally rotate a ConforMIS femur it won't work the way it is supposed to, just as if you place a systematic femur in neutral on mechanical axis without external rotation you will have a problem.

If you mean the femur "shifted" after it was implanted that is probably down to poor cementing technique or an infection that you may have acquired that caused the implant to loosen after the cement cured. I am not sure regarding your personal situation and I don't want to make assumptions as you have already been through a lot and insulted by people here as well.

Regarding the tibia, I am not sure how it "rotated" either, but the tibial placement of a ConforMIS tibia is pretty hard to screw up given the coverage they provide. Again, the surgeon could have messed this up via initial placement error, chasing his/her tial if they externally rotated the femur, or cementing technique error.

I hate to say this, but it sounds like your case was screwed up and your surgeon made some significant mistakes. I hope you sought out someone else for your revision as it sounds like this person is not working with your best interests in mind.

Blaming ConforMIS for your surgeon screwing up is kind of like blaming the farmer that raised the cow when a chef overcooks your steak.
 












June 2015: Had a Conformis total knee replacement. Serious infection 3 days later with massive swelling.
Very limited walking the first year due to instability caused by lateral movement of the components.
Revision May 2016: Surgeon upsized the spacers to try to stabilize my knee. It's 9 months later and the instability is still present. Can only walk up to mile a day unless I wear a brace with metal sides. Only 52 years old and wish I'd gone with an "off the shelf" replacement. Get a second opinion before surgery.
 












anonymous said:
and the initial infection was caused by the implant? Sorry to hear you had a bad outcome, but that could have happened with any implant.
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...unless the instruments used on his knee were part of the serial numbers that Conformis recalled in Aug of '15 due to possible contamination......but you know, that could happen with any implant
 






Some of you folks need to google FDA MAUDE and compare the monthly failures of Conformis total knees with all other companies.

I've been selling knees for a decade and have seen about 3 Zimmer knees revised for laxity in that time across my region of over 1200 a month.

Conformis sells about 1000 knees a month and they have at least a dozen each month that get revised for laxity.

You can run but you can't hide from that kind of thing forever.
 












Retrieval was due to moisture in packaging. All lots brought back in tested negative...just didn't evaporate when switched to new sterilizer. Not the cause.
Z knees are all perfect...just ignore mid flexion and tell the patient to work harder in PT.
 






anonymous said:
Retrieval was due to moisture in packaging. All lots brought back in tested negative...just didn't evaporate when switched to new sterilizer. Not the cause.
Z knees are all perfect...just ignore mid flexion and tell the patient to work harder in PT.
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if I read the press release correctly only 1/3rd of the lots were sent back, all others had been used....negative tests at your home office could be considered skewed
 












Anonymous said:
So it sounds to me that Dad spoiled his son his entire life..son only got into college because of dad's connections...then son failed out of U of Miami after drinking too much alcohol and smoking too much weed...now son is 35yo still living in his parents basement being a complete loser..Dad was embarrassed by how much of a failure his son was..Conformis got wind of his loser son not having a job and offered him the opportunity to make a lot of money if his Dad used Conformis knee... Everyone was a winner here except for the doctors patients...
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anonymous said:
Some of you folks need to google FDA MAUDE and compare the monthly failures of Conformis total knees with all other companies.

I've been selling knees for a decade and have seen about 3 Zimmer knees revised for laxity in that time across my region of over 1200 a month.

Conformis sells about 1000 knees a month and they have at least a dozen each month that get revised for laxity.

You can run but you can't hide from that kind of thing forever.
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MAUDE is self reporting...pretty sure Z never reports a poly swap, ever. If you've only seen 3 revised in 10 years - and based on your numbers 144k knees - you're blind or oblivious, or your territory is full of hack primary docs that ship out revisions to docs that know what they are doing.
 






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