WEBVTT DOWNTOWN AND AS ANN BOWDAN REPORTS, IT IS GIVING PATIENTS NEW FREEDOM. I COULD NOT STAND UP FOR MORE THAN 30 SECONDS AT A TIME. THE BACK AND LEG PAI THAT I WAS HAVING WAS JUST INSUFFERABLE. ANN: WALKING IS SOMETHING THAT TOM NO LONGER TAKES FOR GRANTED. IN 2011, HE SLIPPED ON ICE. HE DID MORE DAMAGE THAN GOOD. >> I TWISTED SO HARD A HERNIATED DISC. AND, OVER THE YEARS, IT JUST GOT PROGRESSIVELY WORSE. ANN: IT NEARLY CRIPPLED HIM UNTIL A BREAKTHROUGH IN MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY. >> IT IS EXCITING. TO ME, THIS IS THE FUTURE OF SPINE SURGERY. ANN: THIS IS THE GUIDANCE ROBOTIC SYSTEM FOR SPINAL SURGERY. UNLIKE OTHER ROBOTIC TECHNOLOGY, IT MAPS THE PATIENT맥스카지노�S INJURED SPINE USING SCANNING TECHNOLOGY AND USES THAT TO DESIGN A SURGICAL PLANT. THEN, POSITIONS TOOLS PRECISELY AND ALLOWS DOCTORS TO DO THE REST. >> PUT THAT IN LIKE THAT. YOU C SEE HOW IT IS REALLY STURDY. IT HELPS US PLACE SCREWS IN THE RIGHT PLACE. TAKES UP A HUMAN ERROR COMPONENT. AND ALLOWS US TO MAKE SMALLER INCISIONS. WE맥스카지노�RE SEEING PATIENTS GET OUT OF THE HOSPITAL QUICKER. ANN: THERE IS LESS BLOOD LOSS AND LESS DEPENDENCY ON PAINKILLERS. >> WE맥스카지노�VE NOTICED THAT CASES THAT WE HAVE DONE WITH THIS, THE SURGERIES WE HAVE DONE, THEY ARE USING LESS AND LESS OPIATES OPIATE PROBLEM THAT WE SEE IN THIS COUNTRY. AN BEFORE PURCHASING THE ROBOT, NORTON DID A TRIAL OF 22 PATIENTS WITH DEGENERATIVE AND GERMANIC SPINAL ISSUES. PEDIATRIC SURGERIES FOR THE RISING CASES OF SCOLIOSIS ARRE AROUND THE CORNER. TOM IS ONE OF THEIR BIGGEST SUCCESS STORIES. TOM SAYS HE GOT HIS LIFE BACK. IN RETURN, HE GAVE THIS PICTURE OF AN EAGLE HE TOOK TO THE DOCTOR. >> I GAVE HIM THAT PICTURE OF THE EAGLE AS A GIFT FOR THE GIFT OF FREEDOM THAT HE GAVE BACK TO ME.