QMG Surgeon Achieves Milestone Using innovative Smart Knee Implant Technology

Dr. George Crickard, III, an ortho­pe­dic sur­geon with Quin­cy Med­ical Group (QMG), has achieved a sig­nif­i­cant mile­stone by com­plet­ing his 50^th pro­ce­dure uti­liz­ing Per­sona IQ® – an inno­v­a­tive tech­nol­o­gy that rep­re­sents a major advance­ment in patient mon­i­tor­ing and out­comes for total knee replace­ment surgery.

Per­sona IQ® is the world’s first and only smart knee implant approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion. The implant inte­grates sen­sor tech­nol­o­gy that wire­less­ly trans­mits data from the knee to a patient’s home base sta­tion. This infor­ma­tion is then secure­ly trans­ferred to a HIPAA-com­pli­ant cloud plat­form, acces­si­ble by both the patient and their surgeon.

“While total joint replace­ment has been a com­mon pro­ce­dure since the 1970s, this is the first time tech­nol­o­gy has been used to help patients thrive in the post-oper­a­tive peri­od. This rep­re­sents a per­fect fusion of func­tion and cut­ting-edge tech­nol­o­gy,” said Dr. Crickard.

This inno­v­a­tive approach fos­ters a new lev­el of patient-doc­tor con­nec­tion. Real-time data is secure­ly cap­tured, enabling time­ly, safe, and per­son­al­ized care decisions.

“The smart implant is attached to the tib­ial (shin­bone) com­po­nent of the knee replace­ment,” Dr. Crickard explained. ​“Fol­low­ing surgery, it allows the health­care team — sur­geons, nurs­es, ther­a­pists — to mon­i­tor rel­e­vant gait/​walking met­rics includ­ing knee range of motion, step count, and walk­ing speed.”

Dr. Crickard added, ​“We then lever­age this data to assess patient recov­ery. We can see if the patient is pro­gress­ing well and deter­mine if inter­ven­tion is need­ed to opti­mize their outcome.”

QMG offers com­pre­hen­sive ortho­pe­dic care, includ­ing advanced sur­gi­cal pro­ce­dures like total knee replace­ment with Per­sona IQ® tech­nol­o­gy. To learn more, vis­it quin​cymed​group​.com.