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Pioneering technology set to change the way we think about total hip replacement surgery

Pioneering technology set to change the way we think about total hip replacement surgery

20 February 2015

Everyone of us has a unique activity profile. This needs to be accounted for in joint replacement surgery and with the use of innovative technology, it is possible to optimise the position of a joint replacement relative to an individual's activity profile.

As a leading global orthopaedic company, Corin recognised this and has identified a unique solution, in the acquisition of technology innovator, Optimized Ortho, that addresses the two big questions in hip replacement surgery today:

  1. What is the target for a well-positioned cup?
  2. How can we achieve that position?

During the past week this state-of-the-art technology was used for the first time outside of Australia, at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford, England, with Professor Sion Glyn-Jones, and at the Oberndorf Hospital, near Salzburg, Austria with Dr Thomas Ramsauer and Dr Michael Antosch.

Corin's Optimized Positioning System (OPS™), offers the surgeon a specific and optimised set of target orientations for the position of a joint replacement, and works in symmetry with a simple and intuitive laser guided system for use in theatres.

We are proud to be helping to optimise outcomes in clinical practice by introducing this world-first technology.