The return to tennis at 80 years after intervention with robotic surgery

Guido is a former anesthesiologist, a great tennis enthusiast to the point of Playing at a competitive level in the different categories “veterans” of ITF tournaments, also internationally. Then The advanced arthrosisa knee that begins to yield and that a 77 years It seems to force him to say enough: “I had a pain so strong that when I walked I forced me to sit on the street, and when I did it I felt a kind of ‘shot’, I saw the stars” had told the podcast Say Of AB Medica. All finished? No. Guido He turned to Giovanni Ballatehis trusted orthopedist and associate professor Diseases Locomotor apparatus at the Orthopedic Clinic of Federico II of Naples directed by Professor Mariconda: “The initial idea was not to operatebecause I was afraid that with a Guido knee prosthesis he could not return to competitive activities as he did before. We tried infiltrations, stem, but there was nothing to do. Consequently, the only solution at that point was represented by the prosthesis: not total, but monocompartial, since Guido despite having A very advanced osteoarthritis of the knee He only had pain in one point, “explained Balato a Gazzetta Active.

The intervention

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Above all, theMako’s contributiona high -tech robotic platform for prosthetic surgery: “It is certainly not the robotic platform that performs the intervention, but it allows us to have absolute minimally -invasiveness with a minimum impact on the patient. Does not replace the surgeon, but helps him to obtain absolute precision: The doctor can therefore perform what he has planned without making mistakes. Orthopedics is geometry, respect for the corners, the axes, and making mistakes of a single millimeter represents a serious mistake, which creates a deformity that can have a significant impact on the patient. In this sense, the robot is a very precious weapon“. It was not an easy intervention, explains Professor Balato:”It was not a simple prosthesis to implantI had to work to give him greater stability, considering that Guido wanted to return to competitive activity. Thanks to robotics I was able to perfect the prosthesis giving it greater stability in the flexion of the knee. He is as if he had never operated: the next day he was standing and without pain. From this point of view – paradoxically – I was also a little worriedbecause I was afraid that this rapid recovery led him to exploit the knee too much, risking complications. Although the intervention is much less invasive However, the scar fabric needs about twenty days to heal. However, I must say that Guido has done everything in the right times “.

The return to the field of Guido

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Guido has already started doing sports again, alternating physiotherapy and swimming with the aim of returning to play tennis e Driving the Italian Over 80 Championships. Professor Balato concludes: “With this intervention the patient can return to the sports activity of before. Of course, he will not be able to ” more ‘or learn new things because he cannot stress an articulation on something in which he is not an expert, but but will be able to return to play“.