Minimally Invasive Solutions™ (MIS™) Procedures

Innovative solutions throughout history have dramatically improved the quality of our lives.  Zimmer® Minimally Invasive Solutions (MIS) Technology extends this continuum to orthopaedics. Orthopaedics will never be the same.

Leadership in Orthopaedics

Today’s patient is more mobile, informed, and demanding.  Active lifestyles lead patients to search for physicians with solutions that are on the cutting edge and can provide freedom from pain and faster recovery from surgery.

The past:  Minimally invasive surgeries were developed to help patients recover from surgical procedures faster, with less tissue disruption, less painful rehabilitation, and improved cosmesis.

The present:  Minimally invasive surgery has become a new standard in cardiovascular, neurological, spinal, arthroscopic, and general surgery.

The future:  Minimally invasive techniques will set a new standard of patient care for orthopaedic surgery.

 

Focused on Results

Zimmer—Expediting Patient Recovery
Since 2001, Zimmer has been developing MIS procedures and instrumentation that have the potential to reduce tissue trauma, maintain visualization, and shorten patient rehabilitation time.

Zimmer Procedures—Proven Clinical Results
Thousands of MIS hip and knee procedures have been performed.  At 6 months, the clinical outcomes are impressive and well documented.  Results indicate that the efficacy of MIS procedures parallels those of open procedures.1

Zimmer MIS Outcomes—Documented Success
Well documented patient outcomes measuring pain and function provide scientific metris generally overseen by hospital Institutional Review Boards.


Zimmer MIS Procedures Designed to Improve Quality of Life

  • MIS Anterolateral Hip Procedure
    A single incision, muscle-sparing approach with instrumentation designed to mitigate soft tissue trauma and facilitate faster patient recovery (over 10,000 clinical cases)
  • MIS Posterior Hip Procedure
    The Zimmer Minimally Invasive Solutions (MIS) Posterior Hip Procedure, combined with many of the clinically proven Zimmer Hip components, is designed with a focus on meeting the surgeon’s minimally invasive surgery goals on his/her terms, better clinical outcomes and returning patients to their daily activities.

 

MIS Clinical Protocols—Make the Path Clear

Zimmer’s focus reaches beyond the procedure.  Now, it expands to all steps of the patient's clinical care pathway to introduce new best-practice protocols:

  • Patient selection
  • Pre-op patient preparation
  • Anesthesia
  • MIS surgical technique
  • Pain management
  • Post-op care and instructions
  • Rehabilitation

 

References

1.  Data on file at Zimmer.