Robotic Guided Femoral Head Reshaping

A method of performing hip surgery with a robotic guided system on a patient, the method comprising:

• acquiring a medical image of at least one of a proximal femur and an acetabulum of the patient;
• identifying a femoral acetabular impingement on the patient based on the medical image;
• touching at least one of a proximal femur and acetabulum of the patient at a plurality of locations with a stylus coupled to a robotic arm associated with the robotic guided system;
• creating a three-dimensional model with a workstation of the robotic guided system of at least one of the proximal femur and acetabulum of the patient based on the data acquired;
• determining a location and amount of bone to be removed with the workstation;
• setting dynamic movement limits of a cutting tool associated with the robotic guided system based on the determination;
• removing the stylus from the robotic arm and subsequently coupling a cutting tool to the robotic arm;
• and
• removing the determined bone with the tool while being inhibited by the robotic arm from moving the tool outside of the dynamic limit.

A method of performing hip surgery with a robotic guided system on a patient, the method comprising:

• acquiring a medical image of the proximal femur of the patient;
• identifying a femoral acetabular impingement on the patient based on the medical image;
• touching a femoral head and neck of the proximal femur of the patient at a plurality of locations with a stylus coupled to a robotic arm associated with the robotic guided system;
• creating a three-dimensional model with the robotic guided system of the proximal femur of the patient based on the data acquired;
• determining a location and amount of bone to be removed on the proximal femur of the patient;
• creating a boundary or model of a desired shape of the proximal femur;
• setting dynamic movement limits of a cutting tool associated with the robotic guided system based on the determination;
• removing the stylus from the robotic arm and subsequently coupling a cutting tool to the robotic arm;
• and
• removing the determined bone with the tool while inhibiting the robotic arm from moving the tool outside of the dynamic limit.

A method of performing hip surgery with a robotic guided system on a patient, the method comprising:

• acquiring image data related to a proximal femur and an acetabulum of the patient;
• creating a three-dimensional model of at least one of the patients' proximal femur and acetabulum based on the image data acquired;
• determining a location and amount of bone to be removed;
• verifying the image data by touching at least one of the proximal femur and the acetabulum of the patient at a plurality of locations with a stylus associated with the robotic guided system;
• setting dynamic movement limits of a cutting tool associated with the robotic guided system based on the acquired image data;
• and
• removing the determined bone of at least one of the proximal femur and acetabulum with the tool while being inhibited from moving the tool outside of the dynamic limit by the robotic guided system.