In our latest video, Dr. Naveen Kumar L V, Senior Consultant - Orthopaedics and Sports Injury Specialist at Manipal Hospital ...

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Knee Replacement Surgery I Dr. Naveen Kumar L V I Manipal Hospital Sarjapur Road

[Music] hello everyone I'm Dr nain Kumar LV I am a senior consultant in Orthopedics and Sports injuries at manipal hospital sjap Ro today we're going to talk about a burning question which gets asked by patients to me every day it's about the KN replacement a lot of people would have made their minds that hauh I need the replace any replacement I'm going for it but they would be confused about why should I go for robotic knee replacement or should I go for conventional knee replacement uh so first thing we need to understand is conventional knee replacement is not a wrong thing uh we have been doing it for last 50 to 60 years I have been doing it for last 25 years and we get get very good results with the conventional knee replacement where we do it with using the mechanical Jigs and take the cuts and alignment for getting our implants into the place so why robotics then uh so like lot of people imagine robot doesn't do the whole surgery uh we do the surgery but robot helps us to take the cuts in a better way so what happens is when we use the jigs to take the cuts so that will help us in taking the cuts in three dimensions in three planes so when we talk about the replacement of the knee the parts which get removed or the degenerated or deceased parts of the joint lining whatever is remaining there so that we we will have a fresh end of the bone which is in the right place and Alignment so that we can put the uh artificial joint into the place so this is something where the cuts which we take along the front mid and back portion of this bone and along the top portion of this bone that can be taken in different angles and variations so this is something which can be set by The Jig in a uh natural uh kind of knee replacement kind of scenario but if if you're doing a robotic surgery there the robot will give the alignment and the cuts in an appropriate way and that helps to improvise in terms of our uh seating of our implants however with the robotics that Precision is getting lot more better it's improving with every new innovation which is happening with the robotics we are seeing that we can do the things in a better way in terms of releasing less amount of soft tissues and getting the bone Cuts in more precise way so that we can align it in more than three planes and that is something which has been ground break breaking in terms of how the whole thing is getting revolutionized whether it is a knee replacement or a hip replacement uh so like it gets promised how you will have less pain by robotic surgery or you will have a smaller scar I don't promise these kind of things because uh pain is something which doesn't really get that much uh different at least compared to the conventional surgeries uh Al although you will see somewhat less pain but yes I mean pain is one of the factors which is very subjective so I can't really promise that part or in terms of Scar we may have to still make the uh amount of cut although it is we do try to minimize that one we can't make it as a mini incision and do it with the robotics so but yeah the main thing is about your outcomes what we are worried about or you are worried about is about the long-term outcomes when we are talking about 20 years 25 years uh so the robotic surgery although we are in still the n stage but we can clearly see that in the longer run your outcomes are going to be even better your knee is going to function better and the range of movement what you get the bend you get would be better compared to the convential surgery so for that reason if you prefer to do the robotic surgery that's absolutely perfect or if you decide that no no no I will go with the convention surgery that's not a wrong choice either [Music]

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