CMC’s robotics program customizes knee joint replacement prosthesis
Cayuga Medical Center
When Deidre Blake, MD, describes the new NAVIO◊ robotics-assisted knee surgery program at Cayuga Medical Center, she stresses three words: accurate, precise and customized.
Successful knee replacement surgery depends on shaping bones by millimeters and adjusting joint angles by fractions of a degree. The exacting measurements are unique for each person and allow a patient to walk without pain on a prosthetic joint that can be expected to last 10 years or more.
Dr. Blake is medical director of the Cayuga Center for Orthopedics and one of three board certified orthopedic surgeons using the new NAVIO◊ system at CMC. The surgeons have completed over 120 partial and total knee replacements since the first NAVIO◊ at CMC in May 2019. The technology brings an unparalleled level of accuracy and precision to partial and total knee replacement surgery that was previously available at larger hos