Raleigh Orthopaedic Clinic is excited to announce that Dr. Tyler Steven Watters, a Raleigh Orthopaedic physician specializing in total joint replacement, became the first surgeon in North Carolina to implant a smart orthopaedic device – the Persona IQ® smart knee implant. Sensor technology within the implant records and wirelessly transmits a wide range of gait data including step count, walking speed, stride length, and calculated range of motion. This advanced, state-of-the-art technology allows the patient to track their progress during recovery and take a more personalized and active role in their rehabilitation.
The long-term data collected by the implant is securely delivered to a HIPAA compliant cloud-based platform and can be accessed by the patient and the surgeon. Persona IQ® will work together with mymobility® by Zimmer Biomet, an intuitive remote care management platform that tracks pre- and post-operative mobility metrics. Persona IQ® is the world’s first and only smart knee implant granted De Novo status by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for total knee replacement surgery.
Raleigh Orthopaedic is proud to offer this new, innovative technology to our patients.
To learn more about the Persona IQ® smart knee implant, please visit: https://www.zimmerbiomet.com/en/patients-caregivers/persona-iq.html
ABOUT TYLER STEVEN WATTERS, MD
Dr. Watters is a board certified and fellowship trained orthopaedic surgeon experienced in adult reconstructive joint replacement surgery, focusing on total hip replacement, total knee replacement, partial knee replacement, and revision surgery.
He attended Pepperdine University for his undergraduate degree, where he was a National Merit Scholar. He then attended Duke University School of Medicine and completed his surgical residency training at Duke University Medical Center. After residency, Dr. Watters went on to complete an adult reconstruction fellowship at Colorado Joint Replacement, the premier hip and knee replacement center in Denver, Colorado and the Rocky Mountain region.
Dr. Watters has authored numerous research publications in many of the top journals in orthopaedic surgery, including the Journal of American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, The Journal of Arthroplasty, Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, and The Bone and Joint Journal, among others. Dr. Watters is a candidate member of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons.
To schedule an appointment with Dr. Watters, please call (919) 781-5600.
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