Joint Navigation System

Computer-Assisted Joint Navigation System offers many advantages to joint replacement patients.

The surgeons at the Joint Replacement Center utilize a computer-assisted joint mapping and navigation system that allows them to visualize or see your joint more completely than ever before.

They have, in effect, a complete, real-time 3-D view of your joint, enabling them to align all parts of your joint, including the new prosthetic devices, with greater accuracy than ever before. It also allows them to use minimally-invasive surgical techniques that leave your normal tissues intact while areas of your joint affected by arthritic disease are safely removed and replaced with new materials.

Highly accurate computer-assisted alignment enhances your knee replacement. The orthopedic surgeons at the Joint Replacement Center use all available technological advancements to enhance surgical technique and surgical outcomes. Our new computer-assisted joint mapping and navigation system helps to ensure that your total knee replacement provides precise alignment of all prosthetic devices with your natural anatomy, for results you’ll appreciate day in and day out.     

Not only does the computer-assisted joint navigation system provide for more precise alignment of your hip or knee implant (or prosthesis), but it also offers you improved joint stability, maximum range of motion, and greater durability/longevity from your hip or knee replacement.  

Faster healing, less pain. 

Standard knee replacements require the use of an intramedullary (IM) rod, which is inserted up the length of the femur to determine proper knee implant alignment. No IM rod is necessary when surgery is completed with the new computer-assisted mapping and navigation approach.

Not only does this simplify the procedure considerably, and reduce bleeding, but it also lowers the chance of developing a possible complication of the procedure – namely, fat embolization, which can cause acute respiratory distress.

Plus, use of our state-of-the-art computer-navigation system also means reduced trauma to surrounding tissue, less pain and faster healing for you.

In the future, computer-assisted total joint replacement will be a routine part of total knee and hip replacements. Fortunately for our patients, the future is happening now at The Joint Replacement Center.   

For further information, call 650-985-7515.