A Note to My Patients

Life tends to pivot you away from where you thought you were going and almost always points you towards where you are meant to be.

Today (August 22, 2024) marks a pivotal day for me. After 21 years I am temporarily stepping away from clinical practice. Over the last several years I have had the opportunity to work with some truly amazing people. I have enjoyed a wonderful career and have been surrounded by incredible patients, nurses, fellows, and staff. As many of you know, I have always enjoyed practicing innovative medicine, and being able to apply this to my daily practice has been rewarding to me on so many levels.

I have also had the opportunity to share in many moments of both joy and heartbreak, and I find myself standing in admiration of the strength of many of my patients through the years who have persevered in the face of various challenges and adversity on their way to an improved quality of life on their feet.

In the immediate future, I plan on focusing my attention on the areas of my life that I have not been able to fully focus on in a while. Family will come first. I have worked so hard for so many years to climb the professional ladder while my family has taken the back seat on so many occasions due to all of my "professional" commitments. Now it is time for family to truly come first.

Red Point Medical 3D’s Bunion Surgery System Cleared by FDA

Utilizes proprietary AI software to convert data derived from a CT scan of the patient’s foot and/or ankle into a 3D model.

RedPoint Medical 3D - The Better Bunion™

Charles Sternberg, Associate Editor
Orthopedic Design & Technology

June 14, 2022 - Red Point Medical 3D (RPM-3D) has become the first patient-specific instrumentation (PSI) based company cleared by the FDA to market patient-specific bone-cutting guides for use in foot and ankle reconstructive surgeries such as bunion correction.

Introducing ‘The Better Bunion’

RPM-3D’s patent-pending, patient-specific surgical guide system utilizes proprietary AI software (RedPoint Intelligence) to convert data derived from a CT scan of the patient’s foot and/or ankle into a 3D model, which is then manipulated to resemble the desired correction as prescribed by the surgeon.

Next, RPM-3D provides the surgeon with the opportunity to rehearse the surgery on a 3D-printed model, provides them with a fully customized technique guide, and a 3D-printed custom surgical cut guide that is optimized and personalized to correct complex surgical deformity with the ultimate precision.

CurveBeam AI Cast – Reimaging Patient-Specific Deformity Correction Planning

CurveBeam AI Cast - Reimaging Patient-Specific Deformity Correction Planning - CurveBeam AI

The foot and ankle are complex structures comprised of 26 small bones and 29 muscles. With so many structures and an incredible amount of variation in how deformities can present, surgical corrections aren’t so simple. For example, there are more than 100 operations that can be performed for hallux valgus deformities, commonly known as bunions. 3D planning helps to address the variations and nuances of foot and ankle surgeries to assist in obtaining optical post-surgical outcomes.

How is one company, RedPoint Medical 3D, making 3D planning more accessible to orthopedic surgeons?

On this episode of CurveBeam AI, host Lew Schon, MD, Director of Orthopedic Innovation at the Institute of Foot and Ankle Reconstruction at Mercy Medical Center, speaks with Dr. Adam Perler, DPM, Co-Founder & Chief Innovations Officer at RedPoint Medical 3D and Surgeon at Alexander Orthopaedic Associates, to discuss the RedPoint Medical 3D has created a vendor-agnostic, streamlined process for 3D modeling, custom surgical planning, and 3D printed cut guides.

Dr. Schon and Dr. Perler also discussed…

The role that 3D printing plays in helping surgeons visualize their surgical approaches
How older and more experienced surgeons have reacted to the redpointing philosophy
What the process of redpointing looks like from receiving a 3D CT scan to the point of the surgical procedure

Read Full Article: CurveBeam AI Cast – Reimaging Patient-Specific Deformity Correction Planning