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US 2022/0175439 A1Published application
Surgical tools for spinal facet therapy to alleviate pain and related methods
AssigneeMedovex Corp.
InventorsRobert D. Carter, Adam L. Gullickson, Scott M.W. Haufe, Seth Iverson, Jacob Blank
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Abstract
Methods and surgical tools for treating back pain use a spinal facet debridement tool with cautery and denuding action and minimally invasive protocol that can denude and cauterize soft tissue associated with a synovial capsule of the spinal facet joint.
Claims13
A method of minimally invasively treating a patient for back pain, comprising:
- introducing a guide cannula into the patient so that a distal end resides proximate a target spinal facet joint;
- attaching the guide cannula to an external tubular support member before, during or after the introducing step;
- then
- denuding and cauterizing soft tissue at the target spinal facet joint, serially or concurrently, using a tool with a denuding and cauterization head that extends through the guide cannula, wherein the denuding is carried out by rotating the head of the tool to remove an end plate receptor region comprising a synovial capsule of the spinal facet joint thereby treating back pain;
- and
- suctioning fluid from the guide cannula and out of a vacuum port in the tubular support member during the cauterizing to thereby exhaust heat generated from the cauterizing.
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A surgical tool comprising:
- an external tubular support member configured with a base having a bottom surface that is adapted to reside against skin of a patient, wherein the base has or holds an upwardly extending tube with an upwardly extending through channel defining a fluid chamber, wherein the fluid chamber has an inner wall with upper and lower ends, wherein the inner wall travels laterally outward a distance as it moves longitudinally away from each of the upper and lower ends to define an increased volumetric segment configured to extend about an outer perimeter of an outer wall of a guide cannula slidably receivable therein, wherein the upwardly extending tube includes a vacuum port residing above the upper end of the fluid chamber and in fluid communication with the fluid chamber, wherein the upwardly extending tube holds an arm that extends away from an axial direction of the tube about the vacuum port, and wherein the arm is adapted to attach to a conduit to engage a vacuum source.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.