Outpatient Knee Surgery

Signature Personalized Knee Replacement

MRI/CT-guided. Custom instrument guides. Built around your anatomy.

Modern Knee Replacement

Your Options Just Got Better

If your doctor has mentioned knee replacement, it's worth understanding how much the approach has evolved. Most patients today are candidates for outpatient surgery, meaning you go home the same day as your procedure, without the hospital stay that used to define knee replacement.

Injections and other conservative measures have their place, but they don't reverse structural damage. When arthritis reaches a certain point, replacement becomes the right answer, and the real question shifts from whether to how: how precise, how personal, and how quickly can you get back to the life you want.

The Technology

The Signature Personalized System

For over 15 years, Dr. Harlan has used the Signature Personalized knee navigation system for both total and partial knee replacement. Before surgery, MRI images, or CT when MRI isn't an option, are taken of your hip, knee, and ankle. Those images are used to manufacture custom instrument guides built specifically around your anatomy, not a standardized template.

Custom instrument guides translate directly to more precise implant placement, and placement is everything. A well-positioned knee replacement moves naturally, lasts longer, and recovers faster. For the active patient, that difference is the gap between walking comfortably and getting back on the golf course, hiking a trail, or keeping up with your kids. Not just functional: actually living.

Why This Approach

Three Reasons Patients Choose This

Outpatient Surgery

Go home the same day: no extended hospital stay, no institutional recovery. Modern surgical technique and anesthesia protocols have made outpatient knee replacement a genuine option for the right candidate. Recovering in your own home, in your own bed — most patients find it makes a real difference in how quickly they heal.

Custom Fit

Your custom instrument guides are manufactured from your own MRI or CT images, built around your specific hip, knee, and ankle alignment, not a population average. That level of customization means the implant fits the way your body actually moves, which translates directly to better long-term function and a more complete recovery.

You See Dr. Harlan

From consultation through surgery and recovery, you work directly with Dr. Harlan. Not a PA. Not a nurse practitioner. The same person who evaluates you is the one who operates, and the one who sees you at every follow-up.

Are You a Candidate?

Who This Is For

If you've been told you have knee arthritis and aren't sure replacement is the right next step, or you're simply wondering whether an outpatient approach might be right for you, a consultation with Dr. Harlan is the place to start. He'll give you a straight answer about where you stand and what your options actually are.

Knee Osteoarthritis

When conservative treatments are no longer managing your pain and limiting your daily activity.

Partial Knee Replacement

For damage limited to one compartment of the knee, preserving healthy bone and ligaments.

Total Knee Replacement

When the entire joint surface needs to be replaced for lasting pain relief and restored mobility.

See It In Action

Outpatient Knee Replacement

Watch real procedure footage and patient education videos for outpatient knee replacement, so you know exactly what to expect.

Signature Knee Replacement

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Oxford Partial Knee Replacement

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