If your knees are not in good health, it is difficult for you to live fully and with a good quality of life on a daily basis. It is the largest, and also complex, joint in the body. When the knee suffers irreparable or serious damage, or wear so severe that it no longer allows the patient to carry out their daily activities normally, it is necessary to replace our knee with a prosthesis.
With this operation, patients can regain their mobility and continue with their daily activities without discomfort, pain, or restrictions. Thus, its maintenance and ‘tune-up’ is essential and today knee replacement techniques have improved greatly, as have the materials used.
“In Spain, around 50,000 knee and hip prosthetic replacement operations are performed each year,” says Dr. Óscar Ares, traumatologist and orthopedic surgeon specializing in knees at the El Pilar Hospital (Barcelona), a hospital that has just celebrated its 130th anniversary.
A successful orthopedic surgery
Every year around 50,000 knee and hip prosthetic replacement operations are performed in Spanish hospitals
This specialist highlights that, currently, arthroplasty is one of the orthopedic surgeries with the highest success rate: “In the last decade, a large number of improvements have been introduced, both in surgical techniques and in the design, construction and adaptation of the different types of prostheses on the market.
Furthermore, he maintains that the El Pilar Hospital “goes one step further” with the incorporation of the ROSA Knee System robot, a system that allows the surgeon to increase the accuracy and reliability of the surgery, adjusting the prosthesis perfectly with the bone structure. of each patient.
More personalized intervention
The use of the robot allows the surgeon to increase the accuracy and reliability of the surgery, adjusting the prosthesis to perfection
In the opinion of Dr. Nayana Joshi, a specialist in Traumatology and Orthopedic Surgery and knee surgery at the El Pilar Hospital, accredited to perform interventions with the ROSA Knee System, she highlights that the use of this surgical robot has meant “an important advance” in the technique. surgery of knee arthroplasties, allowing surgeons to personalize the intervention, depending on the bone structure and ligaments of each patient.
Furthermore, he maintains that the ROSA robot allows functional alignment of the knee arthroplasty according to the anatomy of each patient, achieving a kinematic restoration of the knee and a personalized ligamentous balance. “With ROSA we can increase the precision, accuracy, and reliability of bone cuts; enabling millimetric placement of the prosthesis, and consequently, improving the mobility of the patient’s knee, accelerating their recovery,” celebrates this expert.
This robotic surgery has many advantages over traditional knee prosthesis, as this specialist from Hospital del Pilar continues, emphasizing that it achieves a better postoperative period for the patient. “Knee function improves and recovery is accelerated with this type of intervention through robotic surgery. The postoperative period improves by obtaining greater mobility at the beginning and less pain, achieving a better experience and general satisfaction.”
For his part, Dr. Óscar Ares, traumatologist and orthopedic surgeon specializing in knee at El Pilar Hospital, emphasizes this aspect, that this robotic system takes into account the personal characteristics of each patient, such as the degree of flexibility of ligaments, the inclination of the femur, or the center of the hip, and makes it easier for the surgeon to place the implant in millimeters. “This new system gives us extra precision that allows us to work in a personalized way based on each patient.”
Greater durability of the prosthesis
The support of the ROSA Knee System robot guarantees patients a precise and accurate implantation that reduces friction
As he underlines, “the surgical intervention with the support of the ROSA Knee System robot guarantees patients a precise and exact implantation that reduces friction, and could increase the durability of the prosthesis beyond the current 10-15 years” .
In his opinion and also that of Dr. Joshi, with the use of this robotic surgery in knee arthroplasties, a “new paradigm” has been opened in knee prosthesis interventions that, “without a doubt,” will have a “significant impact.” extraordinarily positive” in the patient experience.
As a summary, he maintains that the advantages of using this robotic system in athroplasties would be:
Less invasive surgery than traditional surgery.
Improved precision.
Preservation of as much bone as possible.
Greater respect for soft parts.
Lower risk of complications.
Shorter recovery time.
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