An estimated 900,000 knee replacements are performed in the U.S. every year, but experts say about 15% of patients aren’t totally pleased with the outcome.
An advancement in technology is focused on improving those outcomes.
Dr. Daniel Chan, Chief of Orthopedic Surgery and Sports Medicine at Memorial Healthcare is one of the first in the area to work with a robotic-assisted solution called VELYS.
“With this particular robotic system, we’re taking multiple patient anatomy data points, about their anatomy and their soft tissue tension, all of that gets programmed into the robot so we can make real time decisions and changes about how you want to make the cuts and how you want to align the implant so the patient gets a naturally feeling knee that will help them in the long term,” Chan said.
Robotic assisted knee replacement patients typically experience less pain and have a faster recovery than those who undergo traditional knee replacement surgery.
Also in today’s health news, there may soon be an app to test for a neurological disease.
Researchers at the University of California San Diego developed a smartphone app that uses an infrared camera to track the size of a person’s pupil by simply taking a “selfie.”
Research has shown pupil size can provide valuable information about a person’s cognitive health, for example, by increasing with difficult tasks and sudden sounds.
The study results are being presented this week at the National Computer Human Interaction Conference in New Orleans.
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An advancement in technology is focused on improving those outcomes.
Dr. Daniel Chan, Chief of Orthopedic Surgery and Sports Medicine at Memorial Healthcare is one of the first in the area to work with a robotic-assisted solution called VELYS.
“With this particular robotic system, we’re taking multiple patient anatomy data points, about their anatomy and their soft tissue tension, all of that gets programmed into the robot so we can make real time decisions and changes about how you want to make the cuts and how you want to align the implant so the patient gets a naturally feeling knee that will help them in the long term,” Chan said.
Robotic assisted knee replacement patients typically experience less pain and have a faster recovery than those who undergo traditional knee replacement surgery.
Also in today’s health news, there may soon be an app to test for a neurological disease.
Researchers at the University of California San Diego developed a smartphone app that uses an infrared camera to track the size of a person’s pupil by simply taking a “selfie.”
Research has shown pupil size can provide valuable information about a person’s cognitive health, for example, by increasing with difficult tasks and sudden sounds.
The study results are being presented this week at the National Computer Human Interaction Conference in New Orleans.
Continue reading...
