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WAUKESHA, Wisconsin - Surgeons are calling it the most significant advancement in orthopedic surgery in twenty years.
For the first time in Wisconsin, patients suffering from arthritis pain have access to a new procedure that uses the precision of robotics to perform partial knee replacement surgery.
The procedure is called MAKOplasty.
3D images allow a surgeon-guided robot to precisely align itself, enabling surgeons to be more accurate than they could be with conventional knee surgeries.
Dr. Daniel Holub says, “The actual burr is attached to a robotic arm that I’m in control of, but because it’s linked to the computer, and the computer knows the plan of exactly where I want to remove bone, it will not let me remove bone outside those parameters.”
The surgery also involves a smaller incision, which means a faster recovery for patients.
Oconomowoc Memorial Hospital is one of only 23 medical centers in the world that have the robotic knee surgery technology, and the only hospital in Wisconsin.
