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Riverside Methodist Hospital orthopedic surgeons use the new state-of-the-art image guided surgery system called Kolibri® for total hip and knee replacements. 
How it works for you
BrainLAB Kolibri® Image guided orthopedic surgery techniques offer patients numerous benefits including:
- Potential increase in the lifespan of the hip or knee replacement device
- Improved mobility and stabilization of the hip and knee
- Reduction in joint pain after surgery
- Shorter recovery time
- Improved quality of life after surgery
Why use image guided surgery for total hip or knee replacements?
Although a standard procedure, joint replacement surgery may present the orthopedic surgeon with many procedure-specific challenges. For example, a typical challenge with a knee replacement is finding the correct joint axis and ensuring that the ligaments have the right tension after the operation; otherwise patients may not be able to move their leg smoothly. In addition, the knee device needs to be positioned correctly so that the patient will be pain-free soon after surgery.
The Kolibri® image guided surgery system helps the surgeon overcome these typical challenges by navigating through all of the surgical steps and intra-operatively verifying ligament balancing and the placement of the knee device before surgery is complete. By using the Kolibri®, the potential lifespan of the knee or hip device can be increased and revision rates reduced.
How it works
Manufactured by BrainLAB, the Kolibri® system provides added advantages for the orthopedic surgeon including:
- A new level of precision and accuracy to total hip and knee replacements
- Complete control during surgery while the computer offers a visual support
- Use of pre-operative planning and simulation of the hip or knee replacement before the first incision is made
- High-resolution, three dimensional diagnostic images of the hip or knee loaded into the computer providing the surgeon with comprehensive anatomical information unique to each body and automatic calculations from the computer of the optimal size and positioning for your hip or knee replacement
- Three dimensional diagnostic images, instead of two dimensional or "flat" images, allow the surgeon to navigate instruments on the computer monitor, simulating and verifying each surgical step before it is actually carried out
Our expertise
Riverside Methodist Hospital surgeons perform more than 3,600 total joint replacements each year and are nationally recognized for their expertise. Our team of dedicated orthopedic surgeons, specially trained nurses, clinicians and physical therapists offer an array of services from common fractures to total joint replacements.
Riverside's orthopedic program has Joint Commission disease-specific certification for Total Joint replacement, meeting nationally recognized quality standards.
The following surgeons have received specialty training to use the BrainLAB Kolibri® image guided surgery (IGS) system for hip and knee replacements:
- William Barker, MD, Orthopedic Surgery, Ohio Orthopedic Center of Excellence
- Michael McShane, MD, Orthopedic Surgery, Ohio Orthopedic Center of Excellence
- Paul Melaragno, MD, Orthopedic Surgery, Ohio Orthopedic Center of Excellence
- John O'Leary, MD, Orthopedic Surgery, Ohio Orthopedic Center of Excellence
- David Robie, MD, Orthopedic Surgery and Sports Medicine, Ohio Orthopedic Center of Excellence
- Ralph Rohner Jr., MD, Orthopedic Surgery, Ralph G. Rohner, Jr., MD, Inc.
- Kurt Unverferth, MD, Orthopedic Surgery, Ohio Orthopedic Center of Excellence
- Louis Unverferth, MD, Orthopedic Surgery, Ohio Orthopedic Center of Excellence
- John Wolfe, MD, Orthopedic Surgery, Ohio Orthopedic Center of Excellence
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