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US 2016/0256203 A1Published application
Bone compression device and method
AssigneePioneer Surgical Technology, Inc.
InventorMatthew P. Gephart
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Abstract
In one form, a bone compression device is provided having a shape-retentive bone plate with an initial, unflexed configuration and a flexed configuration. The bone plate may be shifted to the flexed configuration and secured to bones using bone screws of the bone compression device. Once the bone plate has been secured to the bones, the bone plate returns toward its unflexed configuration which compresses the bones.
Claims29
A surgical kit comprising:
- a plurality of bone anchors;
- a bone plate having bone anchor receiving portions with through openings sized to receive the bone anchors, the bone plate having a flexed configuration and an unflexed configuration;
- a plurality of elongated manipulators having distal end portions configured to be connected to the bone anchor receiving portions of the bone plate and proximal end portions opposite the distal end portions;
- and
- cannulas of the manipulators extending between the distal and proximal end portions thereof and being aligned with the through bores of the bone plate when the distal end portions of the manipulators are connected to the bone anchor receiving portions of the bone plate, the cannulas being sized to permit the bone anchors to be advanced through the cannulas and into the through bores of the bone plate.
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A method of stabilizing a plurality of bones, the method comprising:
- pivoting manipulators connected to a bone plate to flex the bone plate;
- positioning the flexed bone plate adjacent bones;
- guiding bone anchors into through bores of the bone plate using the manipulators;
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- securing the flexed bone plate to the bones with the bone anchors.
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A method of stabilizing a plurality of bones, the method comprising:
- positioning a deformed bone plate adjacent bones using manipulators connected to the deformed bone plate;
- advancing bone anchors through cannulas of the manipulators connected to the deformed bone plate and into through bores of the deformed bone plate;
- and
- driving the bone anchors into the bones to secure the deformed bone plate to the bones.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.