What is Total Knee Replacement?
A total knee replacement surgery involves replacing the damaged surfaces of the articulating bones with artificial implants. Most of these implants wear with use. Thus, the need for revision surgery is high if you are young and active, and if the implant must last your lifetime. Precise alignment can help extend the life of the implants and this can be achieved using computer navigation for total knee replacement surgery.
Indications for Total Knee Replacement
A total knee replacement surgery is the last resort to relieve pain and restore function in the knee that is damaged by arthritis or an injury when non-surgical treatments do not relieve the condition.
Computer Navigation for Total Knee Replacement
Computer navigation provides your surgeon with real-time 3-D images of your mapped knee and the surgical instruments during surgery. The data for the images is provided by infrared sensors fixed to the bones of the knee and surgical instruments. Their position is tracked by an infrared camera placed above the surgical table, which is connected to a computer. The computer then generates real-time images with the help of the appropriate software to guide your surgeon to precisely resurface and cut the bones of the knee, and fix the implant precisely and accurately according to the preoperative surgical plan.
The surgery is performed entirely by your surgeon. Computer navigation is just a tool to guide your surgeon and ensure accuracy. It cannot replace the skills of an experienced surgeon.
Advantages of Computer Navigation for Total Knee Replacement
Computer navigation for total knee replacement has the following advantages:
- Allows accurate positioning of the knee prosthesis in relation to the mechanical axis of the leg
- Accurate alignment helps lower the rate of wear and tear and improves longevity of the implants
- May improve soft-tissue balancing
- Offers better functional outcome
- Lower loss of blood
Related Topics:
- Partial Arthroscopic Meniscectomy
- Robotic Unicondylar Knee Replacement
- Combined Hyaluronic Therapy for the Knee
- Correction of a Failed Knee Replacement
- Correction of a Loose Knee Replacement
- Correction of a Painful Knee Replacement
- Arthroscopic Debridement
- Painful or Failed Total Knee Replacement
- Meniscectomy
- Minimally Invasive Knee Joint Replacement
- Outpatient Unicondylar Knee Replacement
- Partial Knee Resurfacing
- Prior Meniscectomy
- Unicondylar knee Replacement
- Periprosthetic Knee Fracture Fixation
- Viscosupplementation
- Knee Arthroscopy
- Unicompartmental/Partial Knee Replacement
- Patellofemoral Knee Replacement
- What is New in Knee Replacement
- Computer Navigation for Total Knee Replacement
- Total Knee Replacement
- Revision Knee Replacement
- Robotic Assisted Knee Replacement
- Robotic Assisted Partial Knee Surgery
- Outpatient Total Knee Replacement
- Tricompartmental Knee Replacement
- Partial Meniscectomy
- Meniscal Surgery
- Partial Lateral Knee Replacement
- Partial Medial Knee Replacement