Doc performs region’s first robotic knee replacement surgery

Nagpur | Sunday | 20th January, 2019

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But with robotic surgery the precision in surgery makes it perfect. The adjoining soft tissues are not touched during robotic surgery,” he added.Since the surgery is minimal invasive it reduces the hospitalization time of the patient. Nagpur: Dr Mukesh Laddha, an orthopaedic surgeon at the Rathi Nursing Home (RNH) for the first time in city and region has conducted robotic knee replacement surgeries. In fact in near future the knee replacements will be replaced by knee or joint resurfacing in which the entire joint is not involved. Dr Laddha added that the robotic surgery besides being precise and accurate did not require as much rehabilitation.Modern robots he said are surgeon friendly and help the doctor to make the replaced joined as much as his natural one..