What to Know About Robotic Surgery

If your doctor has recommended that you have robotic surgery, you're hardly alone. This high-tech procedure is now being used for total and partial knee replacements individualized to your unique anatomy.

What to know about robotic surgery

But what is it exactly? Or perhaps more pertinently, what is it not, since its name suggests that robots perform the surgery? That's wrong—doctors do. And that is just one important fact to know about robotic surgery. Here are some more.

A behind-the-scenes look

At the start of your surgery, the surgeon utilizes the robot to map out a 3D image of your knee anatomy and measurements are taken of your ligaments. Combined, this information is used to design a unique plan specific to you. The robotic arm is then used to make precise and accurate cuts according to your surgeon’s plan.

Benefits include:

• Accurate bone cuts to give you a well-balanced stable knee.
• A personalized surgical plan.
• Feedback during surgery to create a customized total or partial knee replacement tailored to your anatomy.

Unique advantages

Robotic technology allows our orthopedic surgeons to provide a joint replacement personalized to you.  Your surgeon is in control the whole time and uses the robot as an additional tool to offer you exemplary medical care.