The digital pre-operative planning of total hip replacements

Abstract

Over the past few years, an increasing appreciation of the usefulness of digital technology has emerged among various professions. This is also the pre-operative planning of interventions for lumbar joints (especially reimplantation of total hip and hip). Pre-operative planning is realized with caliper, protractor, plastic templates and x-ray images. The measurement is time consuming with many errors. This paper presents current applications of computer technology in the field of surgery and pre-operative planning of total hip implantation. The new deceloped CoXaM software offers simple solution of the problems by using the digital x-ray images and handmade plastic templates. The developed software combines the digital x-ray images with the digital templates for planning implantation and reimplatation interventions of hip joints.