A revolutionary technology in complex reconstructive and robotic surgery is offering amputees a significantly improved quality of life, providing them with far greater mobility and comfort.
The technique is called osseointegration and will be just one of the topics featured at the XXVI Congress of the International Society of Biomechanics 2017. Jointly hosted and sponsored by Griffith University, the event is being held at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre from 23-27 July.
Associate Professor Munjed Al Muderis, a Sydney-based orthopaedic surgeon, will be discussing how osseointegration has put Australia at the leading edge of the technology, and how new work at Griffith on virtual-reality technology and 3D printing techniques can guide the way to more accurately undertake the more complex of these surgeries.
“Osseointegration takes away all the old discomfort and mobility issues seen with the traditional socket-mounted prostheses that patients used to have to endure,” says Associate Professor Al Muderis.
“Now we’re able to directly
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