Robot-Assisted Knee Replacement In Lexington

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There's two major ways of doing a knee
replacement surgery or total knee arthroplasty

surgery is how it's formally known.

One is by manual instrumentation,
and the other is robotically assisted.

The robotically-assisted technique,
the way that it's designed is it takes the data that

you require intraoperatively,
intraoperative measurements of range of motion,

gap balancing.

There's another technique called measured resection
where you can actually take and say to the computer,

"We want a totally balanced knee at the end of this
procedure, what is that going to virtually look like?"

And then, we can take that and actually use
the robot to replicate that scenario with precision

and accuracy.

With the system that I'm using currently,
it generates a 3D model, which is, you know,

visually satisfying for me as a surgeon to see,
"Okay, this is what the end of their femur looks like,

this is what the top of the tibia looks like."

And then, we can decide what sort of cuts we're going
to make on the end of the bone that will perfectly

balance that knee at the end of the day.

From a surgeon's perspective,
that's realtime data that I can utilize and say,

"Okay, not only does it feel good,
but I have the numbers to support it."

I love this technology.

I love what it's doing for me as a surgeon,
and I love what it's doing for my patients.

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