Leg length and offset tracking with expandable trial femoral assembly

Abstract

Methods include tracking one or more of a leg length or an offset in a patient during a total hip arthroplasty (THA) procedure performed using a navigated surgical system, with an expandable trial femoral assembly. Certain methods include registering a pelvis of the patient to the navigated surgical system; and in various embodiments measuring a leg length or registering a femur to the navigated surgical system. An expandable trial femoral assembly is affixed to a prepared and broached femur of the patient; and the expandable trial femoral assembly is reduced into an acetabular prosthesis. A navigated driver may then be used to adjust an expansion extent of the expandable trial femoral assembly. The navigated surgical system may measure the leg length and the offset in the patient based on the movement of a reference element of the femur relative to a reference element of the pelvis.

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