JAS is excited to announce a major breakthrough with the JAS Durable Knee system. Our design team has been working diligently over the past 18 months finding engineering solutions to problems associated with point loading in our current JAS Durable Knee design. 

Eight months ago we tried a novel solution integrating a new pivot point above the calf. This showed great promise in our initial test groups. We then expanded this program to larger controlled test groups. Not only did we find that patients gave top comfort scores to the new design, clinics that had stopped using our Knee units began using the JAS Knee again. 

Today we are pleased to make the JAS Lower Leg Stabilizer standard on all outgoing JAS Durable Knees. Initial production runs of the Lower Leg Stabilizer will be dedicated to fill patient orders. We should have adequate inventory to start retrofitting your sample knees. Contact Julie Zacha at 1-217-342-3412 (ext 413) to request updating your JAS Knee samples. She will schedule them in. If you have accounts that slowed or stopped using the JAS Durable Knee please schedule an appointment to show them this advancement.

IT WORKS! 

JAS Knee with Lower Leg Stabilizer features: 

• The tibia cuff can be adjusted proximally and distally, and it has a pivot / rocker feature. 

• These features allow the cuff to remain flush with the tibia as the knee angle changes through the range of motion. 

• The net result is that the load from the device is optimally distributed across the length of the tibia, virtually eliminating point loading that had been occurring in our current model. 

• The lower leg stabilizer is free floating, and can rock freely 10° in either direction. A thumb screw gives the option of locking the stabilizer at any particular angle. 

• Additionally, a posterior calf shell with Velcro Straps is provided for a more secure fit.