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- Orthopaedic surgery is
geared towards functionality

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and getting patients back
to their normal life.

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Patients come to us,

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and they're debilitated because
of pain and dysfunction.

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We can get them back to their
functionality very quickly,

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and so it's great to be
able to solve a problem

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with innovative technology
for our patients.

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Really anything within orthopaedic surgery

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lends itself to virtual surgical planning.

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What we do is we capture
images on the CT scan,

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and run that through a
specialized type of software.

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By virtue of being able to
manipulate those images,

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we can plan our surgery
without ever making a cut.

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So once we go into the operation,

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we're simply executing the plan
that we did on the computer.

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For certain diagnoses, it's
definitely a game-changer,

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but you still have to understand
the basics of the problem

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and how the problem used to be addressed.

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So you have to have your knowledge base

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and skills to fall back on.

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The surgery isn't planned for you.

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So one of the most
common types of deformity

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that I use this technology
for is something called

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a chronic missed Monteggia
fracture dislocation.

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What that means is a lot
of times in children,

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because their bones are relatively soft,

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they may bend without completely breaking,

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so you have a dislocation
that is frequently missed.

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With this 3D technology,

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we're addressing for
each individual patient,

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what their deformity is and
not just making an assumption,

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well, it's always in this plane

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or it's always in that plane.

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So in this particular patient,

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what we could see was the
patient had had previous surgery.

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So someone had already
attempted to correct this,

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but they attempted to correct
it based on the X-rays.

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We were able to specifically
see that deformity,

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correct it virtually on the computer,

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and then execute that surgery.

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Surgery is stressful for families

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and stressful for patients,

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and it's extremely disappointing,

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especially when we're
talking about a child.

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So to be able to offer
parents hope for their child

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to get back to the way they
were before the injury occurred

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is really rewarding.