Patient Community for MAKOplasty®

Estimated 15 million OA knee sufferers.*

• Only 0.6 million knee arthroplasty procedures performed in 2006. MAKOplasty ® may benefit a broader patient population, including active baby boomers, who suffer from early to mid-stage OA disease and present with the following:

• Increasing knee pain
• Reduced mobility and activity
• Loss of quality of life
• Unicompartmental disease
• Desire for less invasive implant surgery.

*Frost & Sullivan 2007

Study survey reports 92% of men and 88% of women decline implant surgery.

A Duke University study survey reports that of those men and women whose physicians recommended a total hip or knee replacement, a staggering 92 and 88 percent, respectively, did not take advantage of these surgical procedures, despite their safety, success rates and long-term positive outcomes. Fear of pain or worsened mobility, misperception of advances in the rehabilitation process, and lack of awareness of the full range of benefits afforded by such interventions is behind the high patient refusal rates, the study’s investigators surmised.