The new two-part tech Dr. Cannestra credited is called Mazor Robotics Renaissance Guidance System, which uses a 3-D map of the spine. Dr. Cannestra also explained that the robot can also help patients with herniated discs, fractures and other issues.
“It’s precise,” he told ABC News affiliate WAAY out of Huntsville, Ala. “It’s accurate and I can maximize the size of the screw I put in there and that then allows me to exert as much force on the spine as possible to straighten the spine.”
After her back had been straightened from a 38-degree curve to a more usual 8-degree curve, the patient was apparently an inch taller.
Dr. Cannestra, a neurosurgeon, serves as director of the Robotic Spine Surgery Program at Baptist Medical Center in Jacksonville, Fla.
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