WHAT ARE THE RISKS?

AS WITH any surgery, there is a potential risk of infection and blood loss.

‘THE Navio System is the next generation of technology and has real promise,’ says Dinesh Nathwani, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at The London Clinic and Charing Cross NHS Hospital. ‘It’s very accurate and that has been proven in published papers; but we are yet to see whether it improves knee function long term, too.

‘Currently only 1 per cent of surgeons use technology like this in knee surgery. Hopefully this will encourage more to embrace these methods.’