Benefits of Computer Navigation in Total Knee Arthroplasty

Computer navigation enables the surgeon to accurately quantify deformity and gap balance during total knee arthroplasty (TKA), ensuring greater accuracy in component alignment, full correction of deformity, and well-balanced gap throughout the range of knee motion. This translates into significant improvements in clinical function and may result in increased long-term survival of the implant. Computer navigation in TKA may be even more useful in knees with complex deformities, extra-articular deformities, and in the obese. Hence, navigation complements the surgeon's skill to provide an unbeatable combination of technique and technology in TKA to ensure that all goals of the surgical procedure are achieved.