Spire Parkway Hospital’s regionally acclaimed orthopaedic service features a team of specialist orthopaedic consultant surgeons, highly trained nursing staff, first class physiotherapists, and consultant radiologists using a gold standard MRI scanner.
Caring for a wide range of complex conditions in a clean and modern environment
Our teams of orthopaedic surgeons and medical professionals are experienced in caring for a wide range of complex conditions in a clean and modern environment that aims to achieve the quickest possible recovery
Signature™ guided knee replacement system
Mr. Trevor Lawrence, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon offers his patients at Spire Parkway
Hospital the latest knee replacement surgery using the innovative Signature™ personalised knee system (supplied by Biomet), that provides a knee custom fitted to you. The benefits of which, can lead to a reduction in the time patients are in theatre and thereby under anaesthetic.
This is the latest technological advancement for planning and undertaking knee replacement surgery. Patients have an MRI scan of the knee, hips and ankle before the surgery. This allows computer aided measurement of leg alignment. From these images, a customized jig is manufactured that fits exactly onto the bone ends so that the thigh bone and shin bones are cut at the correct angle so that the knee joint is restored to its original alignment. Each patient has a unique shape to their knee and this system allows for individual variation. The advantages for the patient over traditional techniques can include:
- Optimum alignment of the knee replacement implants for each individual patient which should improve the longevity and function of the knee replacement
- Less invasive surgery with a more complete recovery
- A smaller incision is usually made
- A shorter operation and shorter hospital stay.
Computer aided joint replacement
In 2007, Spire Parkway Hospital performed 200 hip and knee replacements. This includes knee replacement using an innovative computer navigated technique, performed by Mr Ved Goswami, consultant orthopaedic surgeon.
This technology uses infra red light between a camera and computer to map the knee joint. This data is displayed on a screen a little like a car sat-nav system and helps the surgeon to accurately and precisely position components, aligning limbs within 1mm and 1 degree, which may result in a longer lasting joint replacement.
Mr Ved Goswami says, ‘In my experience, this new technology is allowing patients to return to daily activities following much shorter recovery times. I am confident that the surgery will offer increased long-term success for replacement knee and hip joints’.
Mr Ved Goswami routinely undertakes computer navigated knee and hip re-surfacing procedures using the new technology.