US 2014/0277165 A1 · Sacroiliac Joint Stabilization Method

Abstract

A method for treating back pain by stabilizing the sacroiliac joint. The method includes fusing a sacrum bone to an ilium bone or otherwise mechanically immobilizing the sacroiliac joint by inserting at least two implants into voids formed within or between the articular surfaces of each sacroiliac joint of a patient without substantially distracting the joint. The voids are arranged within each joint at either a converging orientation or a diverging orientation. A kit containing the implants and tools required to insert the implants into the joint are also described.

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Dependent claims

A method of stabilizing a sacroiliac joint comprising:

forming a first void and a second void within the articular surfaces of the sacroiliac joint, and
placing a first implant within the first void and a second implant within the second void,
wherein the method of stabilizing the sacroiliac joint is performed with essentially no distraction of the sacroiliac joint.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

13/826,564Filed 14 Mar 2013

Published

18 Sep 2014

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

A61B 17/1615
Component parts: drill bits, i.e. rotating tools extending from a handpiece to contact the worked material
A61B 17/1671
For particular parts of the body: for the spine
A61B 17/1757
Specially adapted for particular parts of the body: for the spine
A61B 17/7055
Spinal positioners or stabilisers, e.g. stabilisers comprising fluid filler in an implant: connected to sacrum, pelvis or skull

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Abstract

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