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Published literature has demonstrated that aLOA consistently improves knee ROM by approximately 20 to 60\u2009degrees, with corresponding gains in Knee Society Scores and Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis (WOMAC) indices, and reductions in pain. Although overall complication rates are rare, large database analyses warn of non-trivial risks, including recurrent stiffness, surgical site infection, and periprosthetic joint infection, with outcomes influenced by factors such as younger age, higher comorbidity burden, poor baseline ROM, and elevated body mass index. Careful patient selection, preoperative exclusion of mechanical or infectious causes of stiffness, and intensive postoperative rehabilitation are critical to the success of this procedure. 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