Patent ID: 8706197

Claim:
A planning method for a knee implant procedure comprising the steps of: capturing at least one of spatial data and/or surface contour data corresponding to a configuration of a patient's genicular anatomy; capturing movement data of individual parts of the genicular anatomy moving relative to each other; using the captured movement data and the spatial data and/or surface contour data corresponding to the configuration of the patient's genicular anatomy to display on a display device the movement of the individual parts with respect to each other; virtually replacing, with computer assistance, at least a portion of at least one of the individual parts of the patient's genicular anatomy with a virtual implant and simulating relative movement of the part with the virtual implant and other parts of the patient's genicular anatomy; determining, with computer assistance, the intensity of virtual contact or virtual impingement between the implant and another part or between the implant and an implant in another part; and outputting the intensity of virtual contact or virtual impingement.