Hip Navigation

Overview

Hip pain can quietly take over everyday life and interfere with daily activities, making simple movements like walking, sitting, moving or climbing stairs difficult. When medications and physiotherapy are no longer effective, hip replacement surgery becomes a reliable solution.

Today, with the advancement of hip navigation technology and a minimally invasive approach, this procedure has become safer, more precise, and more patient-friendly, ensuring quick recovery and better patient outcomes.

At Sarvodaya Hospital, Sec 8, Faridabad, one of North India’s few centres to perform minimally invasive hip replacement, we have brought North India’s first Hip Navigation Technology that enables muscle-sparing hip replacement with minimal invasion, real-time alignment guidance during surgery, ensuring precise and accurate implant positioning, equal leg length and balance, and several other benefits.

Hip replacement surgery involves replacing the damaged hip joint with an artificial implant. The implant needs to be placed at the right position at the right angle with accuracy and precision for better outcomes.

This is where hip navigation technology assists the surgeon. The advanced technique guides the surgeons before and during the surgery, like a GPS System, ensuring optimal implant placement, correct alignment, and better joint balance.

What is Hip Navigation?

Hip navigation is a computer-assisted surgical technology used during hip replacement procedures. It provides a 3D digital map of the patient’s hip joint and tracks the position of surgical instruments during the operation. Doctors use this digital map to accurately place the implant at the right angle with zero chances of errors.

Unlike traditional surgery, where the implants are placed with the doctor’s manual estimation,  implant computer navigation hip replacement allows surgeons to:

• Measure angles and alignment in real time
• Ensure precise implant positioning
• Maintain equal leg length
• Improve overall surgical accuracy

Importantly, this hip replacement navigation system is non-invasive, meaning no additional incisions are required on the body, and no pins are inserted into the bones. It ensures maximum accuracy with complete patient safety and comfort.

When combined with the minimally invasive technique (Direct Anterior Approach) by the best hip replacement surgeon in Faridabad, this technological marvel allows muscle-sparing surgery, where all tissues and muscles are preserved, and the implant can be placed with precision through a small incision, causing less pain and blood loss for the patient and enabling a quick recovery and early discharge. Patients can also walk within a few hours of the surgery and not feel any discomfort or pain.

How Hip Navigation Helps in Hip Replacement?

Before the surgery begins, hip navigation systems assist the doctors in detailed planning:

• It creates a personalised surgical plan based on the patient’s anatomy
• It accurately measures the hip joint angles and deformities
• Then, based on the measurement, doctors can select the correct implant size and position it more accurately
• Finally, it shows the outcome of the surgery even before the surgery starts.

This preparation reduces uncertainties and improves surgical predictability.

 Navigation in the hip replacement procedure provides real-time data to the surgeon:

• It tracks the position of surgical tools continuously.
• It displays live alignment measurements on a monitor.
• It guides the doctor for precise implant placement
• When the implant is placed accurately, it ensures correct leg length and joint balance

This level of precision is difficult to achieve with traditional techniques alone. This is where this advanced technology in hip replacement ensures complete patient satisfaction and better surgical outcomes.

Minimally Invasive Hip Replacement with Hip Navigation

Modern hip replacement is moving toward minimally invasive techniques (like Direct Anterior Approach), where with small incisions, surgery can be performed, sparing the tissues and muscles with less blood loss, less pain, quicker recovery, early discharge and much better mobility.

When this technique is assisted by an advanced navigation technology, the results are significantly improved.

Patient’s Benefits of Hip Navigation Assisted Hip Replacement Surgery

North India’s first Hip Navigation technology at Sarvodaya Hospital guides surgeons in real time, much like a GPS, ensuring precise implant placement, correct alignment, and better joint balance during hip replacement surgery. It offers several patient-focused benefits, such as:

• Sub-millimetre precision in implant positioning due to a 3D digital map of the patient’s hip joint
• Muscle-sparing approach, which helps in preserving tissues and muscles
• Less pain and less blood loss due to minimal invasion
• Supports minimally invasive hip replacement with reduced trauma to the body
• Maintains equal leg length and better balance, improving comfort while walking
• Real-time alignment guidance during surgery with live feedback, helping the doctors make an accurate decision while performing the surgery
• Ensures accurate joint positioning and stability, reducing the risk of dislocation
• Lower risk of surgical errors and complications with enhanced precision and reduced chances of implant-related issues
• Better implant longevity due to precise placement
• Faster recovery and shorter hospital stay with better mobility, after which patients can resume their basic daily activities sooner, perhaps return to the office within a few days
• Non-invasive technology with no extra cuts and doesn’t require insertion of any pins or trackers into the bones
• No added discomfort for the patient, as this technology works externally without causing any burden on the patient
• Suitable for all age groups and can be widely used for a range of patients with varying needs
  

Who May Need Navigation-Assisted Hip Replacement Surgery?

Hip navigation during hip replacement surgery is especially beneficial for:

• Patients requiring total hip replacement
• Individuals with complex hip anatomy or deformities
• Younger patients needing long-lasting implants
• Patients seeking faster recovery and improved mobility
• Cases where precision is critical for long-term success

It is beneficial and suitable for all patients going for hip replacement for any condition, as its major role is helping in correct and accurate implant positioning, either through traditional open surgery or minimally invasive surgery.

Why Choose Sarvodaya Hospital for Hip Navigation Assisted Hip Replacement Surgery?

Choosing the best hospital for hip replacement in India is imperative to ensuring the best outcomes after surgery. Choose the top hip replacement hospital for:

• Advanced Technology: We bring a state-of-the-art hip navigation system and other modalities, ensuring precise surgical outcomes.

• Experienced Orthopaedic Surgeons: Our team includes some of the best orthopaedic doctors and joint replacement surgeons in Delhi NCR, with expertise in minimally invasive and navigation-based procedures.

• Patient-Centric Care: From diagnosis to surgery and post-surgical physiotherapy and rehabilitation, care is tailored to individual patient needs. We have a dedicated team of some of the best physiotherapists in Faridabad who ensure complete recovery through customised physiotherapy and rehabilitation.

• Minimally Invasive Expertise: We specialise in muscle-sparing hip replacement techniques, ensuring faster recovery, less patient trauma and better outcomes.

• Comprehensive Rehabilitation Support: We bring some of the best physiotherapists and rehabilitation experts who help in restoring mobility and pain-free movement after surgery.