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Artificial Intelligence is being used in breakthrough knee surgery to lighten the load on painful knees. Computational modelling calculates how to shift weight away from the painful area by working out the load each patient puts on their knees, and the way they walk. In turn a level of precision can be achieved in surgery that can't be managed with the naked eye. The technology has been developed at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute. Professor Paul Monk is an associate professor at ABI, and also an orthopaedic surgeon at Auckland Hospital, where, he tells Kathryn Ryan, this has been welcomed as a real game changer.
