Jiashi St. Martin's Hospital introduced the "ROSA" Rosa robot arm to perform total knee artificial knee replacement surgery on the patient's right knee. The patient can be discharged from the hospital and work normally on the 3rd day after the operation.

(Provided by St Martin's Hospital)

[Reporter Ding Weijie/Report from Chiayi] The 61-year-old Mr. Zeng, who is engaged in building iron houses, has been carrying heavy and rough work and climbing up and down for decades. Due to degenerative arthritis, his knee pain is unbearable, and he dare not ask for a long vacation for surgery for fear of affecting his work. St. Martin's Hospital in Chiayi City accepted the "ROSA" Rosa robot arm to perform a total knee artificial knee replacement operation on his right knee. After a short rest on two days a week, he was discharged from the hospital to work normally on the third day after the operation, which made him quite satisfied.

Mr. Zeng suffered from degenerative arthritis last year, his knees were stiff and painful, and he couldn’t climb the stairs quickly. He was worried that surgery would affect his work, so he took a conservative treatment of injections. Until recently, the pain was unbearable. He consulted the director of the Sports Medicine Department of St. Martin’s Hospital Huang Liren, after examination, it was found that the cartilage was necrotic.

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Dr. Liren Huang is currently one of the few orthopedic surgeons in Taiwan who has experience with both "ROSA" and "MAKO" robotic arms. Mr. Zeng made up his mind to perform surgery once and for all.

Huang Liren said that the biggest advantage of robotic arm artificial knee replacement is precise positioning, fast and safe, and the postoperative joint function tends to be more natural and normal.

Before the operation, X-rays are taken, and a 3D stereoscopic image is generated by a computer to design the most suitable size and positioning of the artificial knee joint for the patient, and to accurately correct the fit between the joint and the implant, and to perform it in a minimally invasive manner. Minimally invasive surgery not only saves operation time, greatly reduces the risk of surgical anesthesia, the wound is smaller, and the postoperative recovery period is also greatly shortened, which is a realm that cannot be achieved by traditional surgery.

Huang Liren said that in the past, most of the parents' joint degeneration was caused by long-term manual labor. Nowadays, middle-aged people in the age of 5 and 60 are common in outpatient clinics. The cause is that sports injuries were not properly treated and treated when they were young, resulting in long-term knee instability and accelerated joint wear, especially the current degeneration. Arthritis tends to be younger and more worthy of attention; St. Martin's Hospital introduced the brand-new "ROSA" robot arm to provide patients with more complete and better surgical treatment quality.

Huang Liren, director of the Department of Sports Medicine at St. Martin's Hospital, said that the biggest advantage of robotic knee replacement is accurate positioning, fast and safe, and the postoperative joint function tends to be more natural and normal.

(Provided by St Martin's Hospital)

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