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Soft-tissue Informed Arthroplasty

Formus Navigator provides pre-, intra-, and post-op guidance to help you identify soft-tissue risks and optimise muscle function.
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We are building Formus Navigator to define the next frontier of orthopedics. It is not yet cleared for clinical use, but we want your help to get there.
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Optimal Targeting

Aim for the best patient outcomes.

Step by step guidance on surgical targets such as offset and joint centre that optimise muscle function.

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Safe-zone Mapping

Find the safest path of execution.

Data to help you identify risk of weakness, pain, and instability.

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Adaptive Guidance

Stay on top as the situation changes.

Guidance that updates using intra-op information to help you make next best decision.

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Seamless Integration

Enhance your existing workflow.

Implant agnostic, CT and X-ray compatible, and automated so you can plug and play.

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Formus Navigator

We’re building a cloud-based software application to give arthroplasty surgeons novel insights about patient-specific soft-tissue biomechanics. Formus Navigator is driven by a fusion of AI and computational biomechanics, we want Navigator to be your co-pilot in minimizing soft-tissue risks and maximizing patient outcomes.

Starting with patient imaging data, Navigator generates personalized 3D musculokeletal models that simulate how your surgical decisions influence muscle function throughout motion. What you get is intuitive surgical target guidance that adds objectivity to your planning, execution, and patient recovery.

Dr J. Bohannon Mason MD

Professor of Orthopaedics, Atrium Musculoskeletal Institute, OrthoCarolina

If we’re going to take hip surgery to the next level we have to solve dislocation and the PROM ceiling effect. ...We need to be future facing. Not just what’s the best hip now, what’s the best hip in the future. Protect the high-volume guy who wants to optimise their outcomes in ways they don’t even understand yet.

Dr George Grammatopoulos
MBBS, DPhil, FRCS, MRCS

Director of Research & Innovation, Ottawa Hospital

You can risk overstretching the muscles too much, causing trochanteric bursitis. Increasing muscle moment arms can result in better PROMs.

Dr Atul F. Kamath MD, MBA

Director, Centre for Hip Preservation, Cleveland Clinic

If...the patient-specific 'safe zone' [is tiny], that's an even more compelling reason to use advanced planning software that incorporates bony and soft tissue anatomy. Moreover, mating this technology with a robot or other intra-operative precision tool is very important – there’s no way we can reliably and reproducibly hit an exact, patient-specific target without this combination and deep understanding of soft tissue forces.

Dr James Germano MD, FAAOS

Vice President of Northwell Orthopedics. Chairman of Orthopedics LIJ Valley Stream Hospital. Head of Research Orlin and Cohen Medical Group

Just like the knee the soft tissue in the Hip plays a major role. We’re getting good at placing the cup in relation to the bone anatomy but there’s more than that to having a good pain-free well-functioning total hip. The future of Soft Tissue Analysis is how implant position affects the muscle function.

Dr Nicholas Giori MD, PhD

Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Stanford University, VA Palo Alto

I think about targets in terms of soft-tissue tension. I've always thought about how does soft tissue get involved in impingement and dislocation, but now I also see how soft tissue tension is also important to keep the ball in the socket. So offset/other targets would relate to soft tissue tension.

X-ray or CT scan to create 3d Digital Twin
Surgical target zones that minimise risk and optimises function
Recommendation for personalised rehab
Adaptive guidance during surgery based on intra-operative data

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this currently available?

Formus Navigator is currently in development and not available for clinical or commercial use. However, we are looking for early evaluators to help bring this to market.

When will the Formus Navigator be available?

Formus Navigator is currently in the R&D phase and we want to make it available for research usage soon. Register with us to stay updated on release dates and availability.

How is this different to another pre-op planner?

Instead of focusing on the implants, Formus Navigator provides you the surgical targets, such as joint centre and offset, that maximizes function and minimizes soft-tissue risk. These targets comes with safe-zones or ranges that help you pick your approach and execution. By integrating with intra-op systems, Navigator will adapt it’s guidance so that you have the ideals targets not just before surgery, but throughout delivery.

Is this only for hips? Why not knees? 

We are starting in the hip but are already thinking about how we can generalise our concepts of targets and safe zones to the knee and other joints. We would love to hear your thoughts on how best to do that.

How will this work with my execution/nav/robotic system?

We see Navigator integrating with different delivery solutions to provide adaptive guidance intra-operatively. If you have a delivery system that you think can benefit from integration with Formus Navigator, get in touch!

Who can benefit from using Formus Navigator? 

Formus Navigator is designed for arthroplasty surgeons interested in using novel soft-tissue insights to reduce risk and elevate outcomes.

Why should I register now? 

Navigator will be providing completely new insights to surgeons. We want to understand how you’ll use those insights so that we can build a product that suits your needs.

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