The Future of Orthopedics is Here: The Benefits of Outpatient Surgery

Modern understanding of orthopedic surgery has been built on centuries of learning and the development of techniques that make procedures safer and yield better overall outcomes for patients. Just 100 years ago, orthopedics consisted of sticks, plaster, casts, and traction to help align and immobilize bones, allowing them to heal.

Over the subsequent decades, we’ve improved procedures, reduced the risk of fatalities, and preserved joints and limbs through a combination of technology and research. Today’s orthopedic care is a marvel of technology meeting medical needs, enabling us to offer services such as outpatient orthopedic surgery.

Dr. Joseph Daniels and his dedicated staff at Southwest Orthopedic Associates help the residents of Fort Worth, Texas, with a range of joint and musculoskeletal problems and many orthopedic surgical procedures.

Outpatient orthopedic surgery basics

This type of surgery has been available for about 20 years, and the methods used to perform it have only become more precise and refined over time. We accomplished this through finding better ways of controlling pain during treatment and using procedures that focus on reduced incisions, bleeding, and infection risk.

The current outpatient surgery also allows us to better understand which patients are best suited for this option based on medical needs, age, home environment, and preexisting conditions. We perform surgeries on site, so you can come right in and receive same-day care for your conditions and injuries, if available.

Advances in the field

To help make these procedures safer and easier on your body, several technologies are in development to help transform the way they’re done:

• Robotic-assisted systems: Improved precision to target specific areas that need treatment and reduce both the number of incisions and the possible mistakes during surgery.
• 3-D printed implants Ensuring a perfect fit by customizing a replacement to your specifications, and aiding in recovery and mobility.
• AI-powered planning: A data-driven system that aids in assessing and anticipating risks, and helps to customize the procedures based on your particular needs.

Benefits for patients

Using techniques like these, along with our current methods, improves many aspects of your medical care, including reducing the risk of infection, reducing bleeding during surgery, and enabling a faster recovery. Improving your health is always our top priority, and every new technique we discover is only used if it helps improve your lives.

Whether it’s partial or complete joint replacement, urgent care for injuries or fractures, splinting and bracing, or physical therapy, we offer many ways to restore mobility and function to your bones and joints, and the technologies being researched represent the possible treatments you can expect in the future.

Whatever the problems with your bones, joints, and other parts of musculoskeletal system, make an appointment with Dr. Daniels and the Southwest Orthopedic Associates team today to find the solution for pain reduction and treatment.