pate more and receive more feedback during rehab. These technolo-
gies use various devices — including patients' smartphones and
tablets as well as in-home, connected rehabilitation devices — to edu-
cate and coach patients through rehab activities, record exercise data
that clinicians can view and analyze, and provide telehealth capabili-
ties.
Plus, technologies like accelerometers can relay how many steps
the patient is taking, or how much their knee is bending, and automat-
ically send alerts to a provider's phone. Interactive rehab technologies
also cut costs and save time for providers and patients alike by
enabling patients to rehab at home, at their own convenience, as
opposed to traveling to appointments with a physical therapist.
• Surgical techniques. The minimally invasive techniques we use
are muscle-sparing approaches, meaning the major muscles are
retracted as opposed to cut. This allows for faster healing with less
inflammation and pain, resulting in a more rapid return to function.
You don't want to perform a minimally invasive operation that may
have a more limited field of view if that ultimately doesn't allow for the
implant components to be put in the right position. At the same time,
you want to get the patient up and moving more quickly and avoid cut-
ting important muscles, tendons and other structures solely for the
sake of visualization. That's where technologies like patient-specific
instrumentation for knee replacement come into play.
Well in advance of surgery, we use a combination of imaging modali-
ties, including X-rays and MRI, to generate a computerized model of
the knee. We then plan the entire surgery virtually well before making
an incision. This work allows us to accurately size the implants, pre-
cisely plan bone cuts and create a game plan for the operation.
When preoperative planning is complete, we simply hit a button to
transfer that data to the instrumentation's manufacturer, who then
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