Computer Navigation for Total Knee Replacement
A total knee replacement surgery is the last resort to relieve pain and restore function in knee damaged by arthritis or an injury when non-surgical treatments do not relieve the condition. The procedure involves replacing the damaged surfaces of the articulating bones with the artificial implant. Most of these implants wear with use. Thus the risk of need for revision surgery is high in young and active people if the implant has to last the lifetime of the patient. The life of the implant can be extended by precise alignment of the implant and this can be achieved by the use of computer navigation for total knee replacement surgery.
Computer navigation provides the surgeon with the real time 3-D images of the mapped patient’s knee and the surgical instruments during surgery. The data for the images is provided by the infrared sensors fixed to the bones of the knee and the surgical instruments. Their position is tracked by an infrared camera placed above the surgical table connected to the computer. The computer than generates the real time images with the help of the appropriate software to guide the surgeon to precisely resurface and cut the bones of the knee and fix the implant precisely & accurately according to the pre-operative surgical plan. Thus the surgery is done by the surgeon only. Computer navigation is just a tool to guide the surgeon and improve the outcome of the surgery. It cannot replace the skills of an experienced surgeon.
Other Knee Treatments
- ACL Reconstruction (Patellar & Hamstring tendon)
- Arthroscopic Reconstruction of the Knee for LigamentInjuries
- Arthroscopic Debridement -Knee
- Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation (ACI)
- Bicompartmental Knee Resurfacing
- Cartilage Replacement
- Cartilage Repair and Transplantation
- Computer Navigation for Total Knee Replacement
- Cortisone Injection
- Custom Knee Replacement Surgery
- Distal Realignment Procedures
- High Tibial Osteotomy
- Knee Arthroscopy
- Knee Implants
- Knee Ligament Reconstruction
- Knee Osteotomy
- LCL reconstruction
- Medial Patellofemoral Ligament Reconstruction
- Meniscus Debridement
- Meniscus Repair
- Meniscal Surgery
- Osteoarthritis Management
- OATS (Osteochondral Autologous Transfer Surgery)
- Patellar Tendon Repair
- Partial Knee Replacement
- Partial Knee Resurfacing
- Partial Meniscectomy
- Patellofemoral Knee Replacement
- Pharmacological
- Physiotherapy
- Physical examination of the knee
- PRP injection
- Posterior Cruciate Ligament Tear & Reconstruction
- Subchondroplasty
- Total Knee Arthroplasty
- Tibial Tubercle Osteotomy
- Total knee replacement
- Viscosupplementation Injection
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