(Source: Florida Hospital System) Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel now offers Stryker's Mako Robotic-Arm Assisted Partial Knee and Total Hip replacement procedures. Robotic-arm assisted surgery is a new approach to joint replacement that offers the potential for a higher level of patient-specific implant alignment and positioning.1-3 The technology allows surgeons to create a patient-specific 3D plan and perform joint replacement surgery using a surgeon controlled robotic-arm that helps the surgeon execute the procedure with a high degree of accuracy.4-5 'Mako is changing the way joint replacement surgeries are performed,' said Dr. Raterman, orthopedic surgeon and Director of the Hip and Knee...
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