2 UPMC Hospitals Using Robots To Replace Knees

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Because of knee pain, Chuck Yelich couldn’t kneel, couldn’t garden.
“Down hills was the worst,” he says. “It was a progressive increasing pain. I couldn’t take it anymore.”
He tried injections, but they didn’t work. So he saw his doctor about finally getting knee replacements.
“He looked at me, actually, and said, ‘think it’s time?'” Chuck says. “And I said, ‘hell yeah. It’s time.'