WHY ORTHOROBO
The earliest knee replacement procedures were performed in 1968 and relied on manual guides and procedures to remove damaged bone and place the implant within the joint.In traditional knee replacement surgeons use long metal alignment rods which needs to be inserted long inside center of the thigh bone (femur) and similar long rod is used from outside for leg bone (tibia). Femur rod comes with added risk of fat embolization and tibial rod comes with drawback of less accuracy.Still with these rods it is very difficult to find exact anatomical axis for best alignment of leg.
On the other side, OrthoRobo uses CT scan to exactly calculate anatomical axis without inserting long rods inside your bone minimizing risk of fat embolization. Dr. Kulkarni has been preforming OrthoRobototal knee arthroplasty with exact precision eliminating the “guess work”, and “feel” when done the traditional way.
Traditional knee instrumentation set assumes that all knees are identical and therefore all knees are placed in the same position in every patient every time. At least that is the goal. But no two knees are the same and every knee is unique.
These unique characteristics are unknown by the surgeon unless navigation and a computer are used to accurately map the anatomy of the patient during the surgery. This allows for custom sizing and placement of the components that “fits” the patient and their unique requirements exactly eliminating the guess work. By using this technology, every knee is placed in a position which allows an accelerated recovery, a more natural feeling knee, and improved performance in rehabilitation after the surgery
