Details of Knee replacement surgery | Advantages of Computer navigation replacement surgery

Every one wants to walk happily without any difficulty for the life time. But many are getting knee pains even at the age of 50 years. Lack of exercise in the professions, and lack of time for exercises are the reason for this problem and 15% people of India are suffering from these pains. Nearly 14% are getting relief only by medicines. Remaining one percent patients have no other option than knee replacement surgery. Let us know more about the computerized navigation replacement surgery that provides highest accuracy in knee replacement.

Day by day the speed of vehicles is increasing. But knee pains are not allowing to walk. This is the situation for many people who cross forty years of age. For some period of time, these pains can be relieved by using medicines. Actually now there are medicines like glucosamine are available for regeneration of cartilage. Cartilage can be brought to the original situation by using these medicines for three to six months.  Then the medicines can be stopped or can be continued also. There are no side effects with these medicines. If the knees got degenerated by that time, then knee replacement surgery is the only solution then.

There are no problems now…

It is common that people fear naturally for surgeries. They may doubt the durability of the new knee and also doubt their walking posture and comfort. There were really some problems with the earlier used surgical methods that are used ten years back. There was no guarantee regarding the replacement of knee. The main reason for this is seeing with the naked eye without any aid, during the surgery. Doctor with his experience only would be able to do it successfully. What ever may be the care taken, sometimes there would be difference of there or four degrees in replacement. As a result, not only the walking posture is changed, but also the replaced knee gets disintegrated soon.

Using computer navigation…

Computer navigation replacement surgery is the new method that has surpassed the minus points of earlier surgical methods. This method is the knee replacement method done using computer as a compass. Surgery will have 0.5 accuracy. That is the reason, the surgery will have 98% success rate. In the remaining 2% patients, there may be some problems due to infections. Those infections might be also caused by other reason, but not by the surgical method. They will also be treated by using antibiotics for some days.

No side effects….

In the general method of surgery, intra medullary rods are arranged in the leg bones. Based on it only, the knee will be removed. But this rod may cause new problems.  Along with bleeding of blood, another problem called fat embolism also may take place. This may some times lead to heart attack or paralysis. There is no need to put this rod in the computer navigation replacement surgery.

Discharge on fourth day……

There will be a cut of six inches when the old method of surgery is followed. In the new method the cut will be four inches only. So, the injury also gets healed soon. Physiotherapy starts from the next day of surgery. The patient is made to walk on the same day using walker. The patient can get discharged from the hospital and can go home on the fourth day itself. He or she has to walk with the support of walker for one month and with the support of a stick then. Later the patient can walk without any support. The replaced knee gets folded as like the natural ones because it is a hi-plexi knee. There will be no difficulty in stepping up and down. That is the reason of doubling the number of patients who have got this surgery in the last five years.

Rather than suffering from the knee pains, it is better to under go surgery for one time and to walk happily without difficulty for the life time.