Knee arthritis steals your stairs, your walks and your sleep, one month at a time. ACCESS connects you with fellowship-trained knee surgeons at accredited private facilities, offering partial and total knee replacement with robotic-assisted precision, so you stop waiting and start walking.
Procedure Time
Most knee replacements are completed within this window, under regional or general anesthesia.
Hospital Stay
Day surgery is now common for suitable patients. Where an overnight stay helps, we arrange it.
Back to Daily Life
Partial knee patients often progress faster. Full strength continues improving for months.
Time to Surgery
Consultation within days and surgery typically within weeks, instead of the public queue.
Your knee has three compartments: the inside, the outside and the surface behind your kneecap. Arthritis does not always attack all three at once, and that single fact changes everything about your options.
In a total knee replacement, your surgeon resurfaces the whole joint, capping the worn ends of the bones with precisely fitted implants and a smooth bearing surface between them. It is the right answer when arthritis has spread across the knee, and it remains the most common knee replacement performed in Canada.
In a partial knee replacement, only the damaged compartment is resurfaced. Your healthy cartilage stays, your ligaments stay, and many patients describe the result as feeling more like their own knee. It is not an option for everyone, but for the right candidate it is a genuinely different experience.
Where it improves the accuracy of implant positioning and soft-tissue balance, our surgeons use robotic-assisted technology. The technology does not replace the surgeon. It sharpens an already expert hand.
Many patients are told they need a knee replacement without ever being told there are two of them. Here is the honest comparison.
Only the damaged compartment is resurfaced. Your ligaments and healthy cartilage are preserved, which is why patients so often say the knee still feels like theirs.
The whole joint is resurfaced. It is the proven, durable answer when arthritis has spread across more than one compartment, and it is the most commonly performed knee replacement in Canada.
Why this conversation matters. Many people are only offered a total knee because, by the time they finally reach a surgeon, the arthritis has spread. Waiting can quietly remove the partial option from the table. Imaging tells us which compartments are affected, and that is precisely what your consultation is for.
Knee replacement is a quality-of-life operation. The real question is not how bad the X-ray looks, but how much of your life the knee has taken.
Not sure whether you qualify, or whether you might be a partial knee candidate? Send us your imaging. If surgery is not the right answer for you, we will tell you so honestly. Ask a coordinator.
Knees ask more of you than hips do. The reward for doing the rehabilitation properly is a knee that keeps improving for a year.
Most patients are up and taking their first supported steps within hours. Day surgery is increasingly common.
Home with a walker or crutches. The priorities are straightening the knee, bending it, and controlling swelling.
Walking aids are usually behind you. Desk work and driving typically return in this window.
Most everyday activity resumes comfortably. Partial knee patients often reach this point sooner.
Strength, endurance and confidence keep building. Low-impact sport and demanding work generally resume.
Timelines are typical ranges, not promises. Knee recovery is more demanding than hip recovery, and your progress depends on your health, whether you have a partial or total replacement, and how consistently you do your rehabilitation. Your surgeon will give you a plan specific to you, and ACCESS coordinates your follow-up close to home.
There is no single price for a knee replacement, and any website that hands you one is quoting a case it has never seen. Your cost is shaped by your knee, your surgeon and your plan.
Rather than post a number that may have nothing to do with your situation, we do something more useful: we review your imaging and your history, then give you one written, all-inclusive quote before anything is booked. The figure you approve is the figure you pay.
Worth asking your coordinator about: third-party financing is available through established partners, and some private medical expenses may qualify for the Canada Revenue Agency's Medical Expense Tax Credit. Certain extended health plans also cover related costs such as physiotherapy. We will walk you through all of it.
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Straight answers to what patients ask us most about private knee replacement in Canada.
There is no single price, because no two knees are the same. Your cost depends on whether you need a partial or total replacement, the implant your surgeon selects, whether robotic assistance is used, the facility and your recovery plan. Instead of quoting a range that may not apply to you, ACCESS reviews your imaging and history and gives you one written, all-inclusive quote covering the surgeon, anesthesia, facility, implant and coordination. Nothing is booked until you have that number and you are comfortable with it. Financing options and the CRA Medical Expense Tax Credit may also apply, and your coordinator will walk you through both.
Canada's national benchmark for knee replacement is 182 days, about 26 weeks, measured from the day you are ready for surgery. In the most recent national reporting, roughly 61 percent of knee patients received surgery within that benchmark, down from about 70 percent before the pandemic, and the variation between provinces is severe. Crucially, that clock does not start until you have already seen a surgeon and been placed on the list, so the wait most patients actually feel, from family doctor referral to operation, is considerably longer.
Possibly, and it is worth asking. A partial knee replacement is an option when arthritis is confined to a single compartment of the knee and your ligaments, particularly your ACL, are still healthy. Only a minority of knee replacement patients qualify, and imaging is what settles it. One thing worth knowing: the longer arthritis is left to spread, the more likely it is that the partial option disappears and a total replacement becomes the only choice.
Modern knee implants are highly durable, and the large majority of patients get well over a decade of function, with many lasting considerably longer. Longevity depends on your age, your weight, your activity level and the implant used. Your surgeon will discuss realistic expectations for your specific situation rather than quote you an average.
Robotic assistance helps a surgeon plan and execute bone cuts and soft-tissue balance with a high degree of precision, and it has made partial knee replacement more reliably reproducible. It is a tool, not a shortcut, and outcomes still depend on surgical judgement, your anatomy and your rehabilitation. It is not automatically the right choice for every case, and your surgeon will explain what benefit it would genuinely offer in yours.
No referral is required to begin. Contact us directly, share any imaging or reports you already have, and we will arrange your consultation with a fellowship-trained knee surgeon.
Yes. Travelling within Canada for privately funded surgery is a legitimate, well-established pathway, and coordinating it is exactly what ACCESS does. We arrange your consultation, your surgery date, your travel and accommodation, and we coordinate follow-up care close to your home.
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