Performing surgery requires expertise, precision, and compassion—specifically, the surgeon's ability to put themselves in the patient’s place. When a person learns they need surgery, it’s daunting, and many questions arise.
How much pain will I be in after the procedure? Will surgery truly fix my problem? How much time will recovery take? What side effects will I deal with post-surgery? And possibly the most essential question: How skilled is my surgeon?
Houston patients have come to trust Dr. Vasilios Mathews implicitly regarding orthopedic surgery since he has performed over 12,000 hip and knee replacements alone.
As a board-certified orthopedic surgeon, he stays current with important surgical advancements. In the last several decades, minimally invasive surgery — which causes less trauma to the body — has revolutionized surgery.
Robotic surgery is a type of minimally invasive surgery that’s particularly sophisticated. The surgeon is assisted by a robotic arm, high-definition camera, and console, which offer both them and you unique benefits.
Dr. Mathews is skilled not only in performing robotic procedures but also in educating his patients on the advantages of this type of surgery.
Robotic surgery allows your surgeon to do their delicate work more efficiently and precisely.
To be clear, your surgeon is still performing your surgery, but the critical tools of the robotic surgery platform assist them.
Robotic surgery has proven useful for many procedures, including hysterectomy, appendectomy, mitral valve repair, and hernia repair, but it is especially helpful for orthopedic surgery.
We’ve created a compelling five-item list that highlights the most essential advantages that robotic surgery offers patients.
Because your surgeon is only required to make a few small incisions instead of a single large one, your body endures less trauma, making recovery shorter, easier, and less painful.
A challenge of joint replacement surgery is that it’s difficult to place an artificial joint’s components so they’re aligned perfectly — which is a must because it enables the joint to work exceptionally and comfortably.
Robotically assisted surgery gives your surgeon critical visual, auditory, and tactile data to position your artificial joint optimally. The robotic arm even has more range of motion than a human hand.
Minimally invasive robotic surgery is shown to cause less bleeding and scarring after surgery. Excessive post-surgical bleeding can cause shock, while scars are a cosmetic concern that can make you self-conscious.
Because your incisions are smaller, you’re less likely to develop an infection after your operation.
An infection after surgery can pose serious problems, prolonging your discomfort and the need for interventional treatment at the hospital. An infection can spread from your surgical site to other tissues and organs and even travel to remote areas of your body via your bloodstream. If this happens, the situation can become life-threatening.
In keeping with the fact that recovery is smoother and shorter with robotic surgery, you’re also likely to have a shorter hospital stay than if you’d had standard surgery.
Being at home, where you’re most comfortable, also boosts recovery. Some data supports that when hip and knee replacement patients had good care coordination before their surgery and proper education about post-surgical care when they got home, they healed more quickly, experienced fewer complications, and even felt more confident about their recovery.
Dr. Mathews is highly invested in treating, closely monitoring, and serving each of his patients in the best way possible, meeting them where they are, and offering effective solutions that help them become pain-free and more mobile.
Contact our conveniently located South Main Street office at 713-794-3548 to schedule an appointment or to learn more about robotic surgery. You can also book an appointment online.
