Electric motor driven tool for orthopedic impacting

A surgical method, comprising:

• actuating a motor, thereby causing a piston of a surgical impacting tool to move in an air chamber of the surgical impacting tool;
• wherein the movement of the piston causes a striker of the surgical impacting tool to impact an anvil of the surgical impacting tool;
• and
• the impact causes a force to be delivered to a surgical implement releasably coupled to the surgical impacting tool such that the surgical implement moves relative to a bone of a patient.

A surgical device, comprising:

• an adapter configured to be releasably coupled to a surgical impacting tool;
• a surgical implement configured to be releasably attached to the adapter such that the adapter holds the surgical implement co-linear to a body of the surgical impacting tool;
• a motor;
• and
• a piston configured to be driven by the motor in a first direction that is co-linear to the body of the surgical impacting tool;
• wherein, with the surgical implement releasably attached to the adapter and the adapter releasably coupled to the surgical impacting tool, the driving of the piston is configured to cause the surgical implement to move relative to a bone in the first direction.