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7608074 |
External fixation apparatus and method
Apparatuses and methods for externally fixing and precisely adjusting fractures, such as fractures near the ankle, are disclosed. In one embodiment, an external fixation apparatus includes a first...
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RE40914 |
Orthopaedic fixation plate
A plate for use in fixating the position of a first bone segment relative to a second bone segment, the plate comprising a body portion having a plurality of attachment mechanisms located therein,...
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7527626 |
External fixation element
An external fixation system has clamps, rods and pins having anti-magnetic core parts and a non-conductive sheath part covering essentially the exterior surfaces of the core part. The rods, pins...
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7491008 |
External fixation clamp
An insert for an external fixation has two jaws for clamping a rod-shaped element. The insert includes a locking element and is an angled piece having two free ends, with at least one engagement...
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7485132 |
Transverse connector with cam activated engagers
A transverse connector may be attached to rods of an orthopedic stabilization system by cam locks. Rotation of a cam system may extend a rod engager into a rod opening. The rod engager may be a...
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7479142 |
Method of fracture fixation
An external fixator includes a main body and an outrigger for extending over a fractured joint, such as a wrist joint. The main body can be positioned next to a right arm, or flipped over and...
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7465303 |
External fixation assembly
An external fixation assembly for bone fusion is disclosed. The assembly includes an extension arm having a fixation joint portion and a pin element moveably disposed along the extension arm...
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7422593 |
External fixation system
An external fixation system for a bone and associated method. The fixation system includes a proximal frame defining a continuous proximal boundary, a distal frame defining a continuous distal...
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7367977 |
Apparatus for dynamic external fixation of distal radius and wrist fractures
The fixator is an apparatus for repairing fractures of the distal radius and wrist. Distal, pivot, distraction, and radial members provide an anatomically contoured, radiolucent apparatus that...
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7361176 |
External bone/joint fixation device
An external foot/ankle fixation device has a one-piece frame component and a positionable cross bar that allows the attachment of generally anterior/posterior directed fixation wires or rods...
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7311711 |
Surgical distractor frame
A distractor frame comprises an upper pin, a lower pin positioned substantially parallel to the upper pin, a pair of adjustment mechanisms, wherein each adjustment mechanism couples to the upper...
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7291148 |
External fixator for Colles' fracture
Bone fragments resulting from a Colles' fracture of the distal radius bone are set in position by an external fixator that includes mounting structures attachable to the radius at a site proximal...
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7252669 |
Fixator pin cap
The present invention 10 discloses a bridge cap comprising a compressible resilient material having a substantially oval shape with a planar surface on the distal ends 24 thereof. The bridge...
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7240677 |
System and method for force, displacement, and rate control of shaped memory material implants
Controlling the transformation of the microstructure of shape memory material implants. A surgeon can use the inventive energy delivery device to control the rate of implant shape change, the...
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7169149 |
Device for external fixation of a proximal fracture of the ulna with a clamped medullar pin and multiple clamped pins holding bone fragments
A device for external fixation of a fracture of the proximal end of the ulna includes an frame having a distal elongated portion extending below the ulna, holding a number of pins extending upward...
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7147639 |
Disposable external fixation device
A novel disposable axial external fixation device for reducing bone fractures, of the type comprising an extendible rod-like middle body and oppositely located bone screw clamps which are...
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7144378 |
Quick-release torquer apparatus for delivering and maintaining a medical guideware
The present invention provides a torquer for maneuvering a medical guidewire during endovascular surgical procedures or the like, which can be easily positioned and re-positioned along the length...
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7033392 |
Posterior oblique lumbar arthrodesis
Instruments and methods for spinal stabilization are disclosed. In preferred embodiments, the invention provides greater stabilization of vertebral bodies through methods including combinations of...
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6964663 |
Combination bone fixation/immobilization apparatus
A combination bone fixation/immobilization apparatus is adapted to stabilize a patient's foot and ankle. A foot plate is adapted to have one or more transfixation wires or pins or screws fixed...
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6942664 |
Rapidly adjustable threaded pin clamp
A clamp for the rapid and accurate positioning of a threaded fixation pin has a central body defining a channel therethrough for receiving a fixation pin. The clamp also includes a locking member...
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6893447 |
Surgical reference frame fixation device with cannulated post and method of use
A surgical fixation device for mounting a stereotactic reference frame to a patient. The device includes a mounting bracket assembly, a cannulated post, a base, an anchor tube, a plurality of...
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6840939 |
Axial external fixator
The invention relates to a new type of axial unilateral external splint device for stabilizing bone fractures, comprising an extendible rod-like middle body ( 2 ) and oppositely located bone screw...
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6790208 |
Rod gripper
A slider 37 having a rod-pressing portion 35 for pressing a rod 23 into a rod-engaging recess 25 is movably provided on a holder body 27 having the rod-engaging recess 25 . The holder...
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6755828 |
Device for external transpedicular spinal fixation, technique of its use
The invention relates to medicine, in particular to spinal surgery and is used for curing spinal diseases and injuries in specialized departments of vertebrology and neurosurgery. The inventive...
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6749611 |
Bone screw, particularly for use with external fixators in fracture stabilization
The invention relates to a bone screw, particularly for use with external splints in fracture stabilization, comprising an elongate cylindrical body ( 2 ) of predetermined length and diameter...
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6746448 |
Outrigger for bone fixator
An external fixator includes a main body and an outrigger for extending over a fractured joint, such as a wrist joint. The main body can be positioned next to a right arm, or flipped over and...
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6730086 |
Repositioning instrument to fixate bone-fractures
The present invention discloses bone grasping tongs for seizing bones or bone fragments. The tongs comprise two mutually pivotable tongs levers fitted with clamping tips at the ends of the tongs...
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6716212 |
Universal modular external fixation system
A universal modular external fixation system for immobilizing bone fragments in long bone fractures. The universal modular external fixation system includes a frame assembly comprising a plurality...
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6709433 |
Bridging/non-bridging external bone fixator
An external bridging/non-bridging bone fixation device including at least a first member and a second member. The first member is implanted substantially permanently on an arm bone during an entire...
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6695841 |
Percutaneous scaphoid fixation method and guide wire alignment device
A method and associated apparatus for percutaneous internal fixing of a fractured limb bone comprising, placing the limb in a stabilizing clamp that is transparent to x-ray radiation, demonstrating...
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6678562 |
Combined tissue/bone growth stimulator and external fixation device
A combined tissue/bone growth stimulator and external fixation device is provided to aid in the treatment of fractures, osteotomies, soft tissue injuries, and reconstructive surgery and to reduce...
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6663631 |
Method and device to correct instability of hinge joints
An orthopedic method and device for correcting instability of an injured hinge joint. The device includes fixed and rotating rigid members connected by a pair of elongated, generally cylindrical...
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6663630 |
Halo/collar cervical orthosis
A cervical fixation system comprises a body rigidly attached to a patient's skull at one or more rigid attachment points. One method of achieving such a rigid attachment is through the use of bone...
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6652523 |
Monolateral orthopedic device with external fixing for immobilizing a fractured bone
The invention applies to the field of medicine, particularly to bone surgery. The invention relates to a monolateral orthopedic external fixation device for immobilizing a fractured bone having a...
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6613049 |
Adjustable bone stabilizing frame system
By providing components securable to anchor pins or screws of different diameters as well as providing clamps which hold associated pins in any position during adjustments, an external fixation or...
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6613039 |
Safety guide for surgical placement of sharp instruments
A method and apparatus for the safe surgical placement of sharp instruments, such as trocars, is provided. The apparatus includes a safety guide that allows placement of a surgical trocar through a...
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6610061 |
Fixation device
The invention relates to a fixation device with clamping jaws and with rods connecting the clamping jaws, said rods being adjustable axially and angularly for positioning relative to the clamping...
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6605088 |
Bone setting apparatus and method
A pair of bone clamps used for open reduction and internal fixation of a fractured bone or osteotomy is interconnected by a lockable, articulating connection apparatus. Each bone clamp includes a...
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6592584 |
Medical device for correcting finger joint contractures
A finger suffering from contracture of the proximal interphalangeal (PIP) joint is treated by application of a device that includes two pivotally joined sections, one of which is securable to the...
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6589241 |
Bone clamp
A bone clamp having a ratchet mechanism including ratchet teeth having rounded peaks with curved valleys therebetween and a curved pawl having a curvature similar to the valleys spanning the peaks...
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6581481 |
Capacitive extensometer
The present invention provides for measurements of the principal strain magnitudes and directions, and maximum shear strain that occurs in a porous specimen, such as plastic, ceramic or porous...
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6575972 |
Wrap spring clamp
A clamp with helical coils or springs defining a cavity to receive and secure rod members. The clamp also comprises a connection and tightening device for constricting the first and second helical...
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6572616 |
Fixing device for orthopedic applications
The invention relates to a fixing device for orthopedic applications, in which at least one coupling member is mounted in the connecting rod of, or the guiding rod for, the clamping members,...
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6530925 |
External fixator for immobilizing bone fragments, particularly in the area of the wrist
This fixator ( 1 ) comprises a rigid bar ( 7 ), two pin-holder assemblies ( 8, 9 ) which can be moved relative to this bar ( 7 ), and means ( 13, 22 ) with which it is possible to immobilize each...
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6520962 |
Taper-locked adjustable connector
A connection assembly between a spinal implant rod and a vertebral anchor. The assembly has a longitudinal member, a housing, a rod interface washer, and a compression member. The longitudinal...
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6520961 |
Method and apparatus for external fixation of a hinged joint
An apparatus for aligning a mechanical pivot axis of an external fixator with an anatomical pivot axis of a hinged joint. The hinged joint has first and second bones on opposite sides of the...
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6514254 |
Clamp device for orthopedic external fixator
A clamp device for use with an external skeletal fixator for being coupled to a patient's limb, and strap structure having a first end for being coupled to a patient's extremity and having a second...
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6514253 |
Apparatus for locating interlocking intramedullary nails
An apparatus for locating interlocking intramedullary nails comprises a slide device which is disposed at the near end of the nails and is capable of adjustment in various directions. The slide...
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6500177 |
Telescopic body for an external fixation system
A telescopic body for an external bone fixation device includes a central core body and cylindrical outer parts having a bore extending therethrough, all disposed about a center axis. The outer...
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6482206 |
Method and apparatus for external fixation of bones
An external fixator for securing a first bone portion in a fixed relationship with respect to a second bone portion includes a longitudinally extending rod and a bone screw clamping assembly. The...
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