ADVANCED AGE
The elder is mainly characterized by the concern of retaining his independence the longest possible. All precautionary and monitoring measures will be scrupulously ensured. These patients life expectancy has prompted us to come up with admittedly heavier solutions, but with, above all, fast functional result. The function being already limited by other concomitant diseases or merely by the aging, the use of the operated member will certainly, but reasonably restrained. This will allow us to put forward the prosthetic replacement easily. However, the notion of the elderly has evolved to, sometimes, meet the same requirements of the sport patients. It will be, therefore, appropriate to accompany them on this track according to the technological possibilities