Apparatus and methods for balancing a joint
AssigneeScripps Health
InventorsClifford W. Colwell, Jr., Darryl David D'Lima
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Abstract
A joint replacement balancing system which provides real-time feedback to a surgeon during a joint replacement surgery to assist the surgeon to balance a joint replacement. The joint replacement balancing system includes a non-transitory processor-readable medium storing code representing instructions to cause a processor to receive a signal from a joint balancing apparatus, determine if the joint replacement is out of balance, determine a corrective course of action to bring the joint into balance and generate and display to the surgeon during the joint replacement surgery a recommended corrective course of action to complete the joint replacement surgery.
Claims17
In a joint replacement balancing system which provides real-time feedback to a surgeon during a joint replacement surgery to assist the surgeon to balance a joint replacement, a non-transitory processor-readable medium storing code representing instructions to cause a processor to:
- receive a signal from a joint balancing apparatus, the signal communicating a first data set including a joint balancing parameter, the joint balancing apparatus disposed between a first bony structure and a second bony structure and including a first portion configured to be disposed between the first bony structure and a second portion configured to be disposed between the first portion and the second bony structure, and a transducer disposed between the first portion and the second portion;
- determine, based on the first data set, if the joint replacement is out of balance;
- determine, based on the first data set, a corrective course of action to bring the joint into balance;
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- generate and display to the surgeon during the joint replacement surgery a recommended corrective course of action to complete the joint replacement surgery.
In a system which communicates with a temporary measuring device for use in joint replacement surgery to facilitate balancing a prosthetic joint, a non-transitory processor-readable medium storing code representing instructions to cause a processor to:
- receive communications from the temporary measuring device, the communications including data representing distance and force as measured by at least a first transducer disposed at a first position between a first portion of the temporary measuring device and a second portion of the temporary measuring device disposed between the first portion and a second bony structure, the second bony structure disposed opposite the first bony structure, the communications further including data representing distance and force as measured by at least a second transducer disposed at a second position between the first portion of the temporary measuring device and the second portion of the temporary measuring device;
- determine, based on the data representing distance and force as measured by the at least first transducer and second transducer, if the joint replacement surgery requires a corrective course of action;
- determine a corrective course of action for the joint replacement surgery;
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- provide, during the joint replacement surgery, the corrective course of action to a care provider.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.