Your knee is a hardworking joint. Whether you are walking, squatting, or just standing, your knees depend on a harmonious system of bones, ligaments, muscles, cartilage, and nerves.
If any disease or injury affects any part of your knee, making movement hard and painful on a chronic basis, you may require a knee replacement surgery.
Accuracy is critical in these surgeries. The more exact and precise your surgeon’s measurement tools, the better he can plan and carry out your surgery. This aspect underscores the importance of robotic knee replacement.
Robotic knee replacement technology helps orthopaedic surgeons to perform highly accurate total and partial knee replacement surgeries. The innovative technology takes into account each individual’s unique knee structure for the best outcomes.
What Is Robotic Knee Replacement?
A robotic knee surgery is quite similar to a conservative knee replacement, except for the technique. Your surgeon removes the damaged part of your knee, and replaces it with an artificial joint.
What makes robotic surgery different is that it is done with the help of a surgical robotic arm. It allows for higher accuracy. In more complicated cases, robotic knee surgery helps maintain a better balance in the soft tissues around your knee. It also better aligns the joint.
You prepare for a robotic knee replacement the same way as you do for a conventional surgery. Your surgeon will discuss different knee replacement surgery options with you, including whether you will be a good fit for robotic joint replacement.
Robotic Knee Replacement Procedure
The Orthopaedics department at Sohana Hospital has cutting-edge robotic equipment that surgeons use to make an ideal surgical plan for you. It optimizes every step of your surgery. The Cuvis joint robotic system can be used for total knee replacement as well as partial knee replacement.
Prior to robotic knee surgery, you’ll have specialized CT Scans. These imaging tests help create a 3D image of your knee joint, bone anatomy, and surrounding tissues. Such detailed pictures help your surgeon with precise planning of your surgery. They can make cuts (incisions) with accuracy to the millimetre, getting the correct implant size and positioning.
Who Is An Eligible Candidate?
If you are eligible for conventional knee replacement, it is likely that you are eligible for robotic-assisted knee replacement as well. It is important for you to discuss the prospect of robotic surgery for you.
Robotic knee surgery is ideal for even the most complex knee problems.
Advantages
From the perspective of a patient, robotic-assisted knee surgery offers several advantages over conventional knee surgery, including:
- Better Surgical Planning: 3-D images taken before and during surgery help your surgeon to more accurately plan the best type and alignment of your replacement joint. It makes sure that the artificial joint is the correct size and fit.
- Enhanced Accuracy: Robotic technology boosts your knee surgeon’s expertise and capabilities for more precise – planning, removal of damaged knee parts and tissues, and placement of artificial implant.
- Optimal Joint Alignment: With the use of robotic technology, your orthopaedic surgeon is able to better align and position your knee implant. It helps ensure that you get a more natural-feeling new joint, and it encounters less friction and wear-and-tear.
Traditional Vs. Robotic Surgery
Robotic knee surgery is not conducted by a robot itself. The robot only acts as a guide. It assists your surgeon perform the surgery as per the plan laid out in advance.
Just as in traditional surgery, your knee surgeon is always in full control. The difference is that he uses the robot as an additional surgical instrument. The robot assists your surgeon and boosts his skills during all stages of the surgery. With such an advanced setup, you get the best possible results.
The Rising Popularity of Robot-Assisted Surgery
- Robotic-assisted knee replacement offers lucrative advantages over traditional knee surgery – faster recovery, small incisions (cuts), better outcomes, and better aligned and longer lasting artificial joints, etc.
- It can be used for total as well as partial knee replacements.
- It is ideal for complex cases.
- If you are fit for conventional knee surgery, you should also be fit for robotic knee replacement.
With such benefits, just every individual suffering from knee problems, prefers to get treated with robotic surgery. And that’s the reason for its growing popularity.
Conclusion
As more and more people are becoming aware of robotic surgery and its advantages, they no longer want their knees to be operated with traditional surgery. And it is easy to understand this preference.
At Sohana Hospital, there is a dedicated orthopaedic department. Not only do we have knee specialists with years of experience but also the most advanced Cuvis robot for those exceptionally precise knee surgeries. You can discuss all your queries, test reports, and surgery-related questions with our expert doctors.
You can then plan your surgery. Getting freedom from your debilitating knee pain is very much in your own hands. A pain-free life waits for you at Sohana Hospital.
