Women and men are different. That’s not news to the medical establishment. What is news is that Zimmer is first in the orthopaedic industry to address this fact… with the introduction of the Zimmer® Gender Solutions™ NexGen® High-Flex Implants. What makes them revolutionary is the way in which they compensate for the most important differences between women’s and men’s knees. It isn’t strictly a matter of size; it’s a matter of shape.

Why a woman’s knee?

A growing body of research has led to breakthroughs in distinctive female and male diagnoses and treatments — for conditions ranging from heart disease to rheumatoid arthritis. The need to account for gender-specific solutions in orthopaedics is apparent.

• Orthopaedic surgeons have reported anatomical differences  in women’s and men’s knees for years.1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
• Orthopaedic surgeons often have to consider intraoperative adjustments during knee surgery to accommodate women’s anatomical differences.4

• Women account for nearly twothirds of knee arthroplasties performed annually in the U.S.9,10
• Women are three times more likely than men to forego knee arthroplasty.11