US 9,788,876 B2Granted

Fracture fixation device

AssigneeBiomet Sports Medicine, LLC

InventorsKevin T. Stone, Brian K. Berelsman, Ryan A. Kaiser

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Abstract

Assemblies for securing fractured bone are provided. The assembly includes a first fixation element, a second fixation element, and an adjustable flexible member construct. The first fixation element having a male or a female sleeve is secured within a first portion of the fractured bone. The second fixation element having the other of the male or female sleeve telescopically received within the one of the male or female sleeve is secured within a second portion of the fractured bone. The adjustable flexible member construct extends between the first and second fixation elements and has at least one adjustable loop coupled to the first fixation element and the second fixation element and a pair of adjusting ends extending through an opening in the first fixation element. The pair of adjusting ends can be pulled to reduce a diameter of the adjustable loop and to compress fragments of the fractured bone.

Claims14

Dependent claims

A method for securing a fractured bone comprising:

aligning first and second portions of the fractured bone;
forming a bore at least partially extending through the first and second portions of the fractured bone;
inserting an assembly into the bore, the assembly comprising:
a first fixation element having a first sleeve extending therefrom, the first fixation element insertable into the first portion of the fractured bone,
a second fixation element having a second sleeve extending therefrom that is matingly and telescopingly engageable with the first sleeve, the second fixation element insertable into the second portion of the fractured bone, and
an adjustable flexible member construct extending through the first and second fixation elements, the adjustable flexible member construct having at least one adjustable loop coupled to the first fixation element and the second fixation element and a pair of ends;
matingly and telescopingly engaging the first sleeve and the second sleeve together within the bore, such that the first and second sleeves are telescopingly slidable relative to each other in first and second opposite directions along a longitudinal axis of the assembly;
reducing the adjustable flexible member construct to compress the fractured bone by pulling at least one of the ends to reduce the size of the adjustable loop, thereby causing the first and second sleeves to telescope closer together in the first direction;
and
restricting telescoping of the first and second sleeves apart in the second direction by fixing the size of the adjustable loop.

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A method for securing a fractured bone, comprising:

positioning a guide pin relative to first and second portions of the fractured bone;
positioning a cannulated bone cutting tool over the guide pin;
driving the cannulated bone cutting tool to form a bore at least partially into the first and second portions of the fractured bone;
inserting a first fixation element into the first portion of the fractured bone through the bore, the first fixation element having a first sleeve extending therefrom;
inserting a second fixation element into the second portion of the fractured bone, the second fixation element having a second sleeve extending therefrom that matingly and telescopically engages the first sleeve, such that the first and second sleeves are telescopingly slidable relative to each other in first and second opposite directions along a longitudinal axis extending through the first and second fixation elements;
compressing the first and second portions of the fractured bone by engaging an adjustable flexible member construct extending through the first and second fixation elements, the adjustable flexible member construct having at least one adjustable loop coupled to the first fixation element and the second fixation element and a pair of ends, wherein engaging the adjustable flexible member construct comprises pulling at least one of the ends to reduce the size of the adjustable loop, thereby causing the first and second sleeves to telescope closer together in the first direction;
and
restricting telescoping of the first and second sleeves apart in the second direction by fixing the size of the adjustable loop.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/215,550Filed 17 Mar 2014 · division
Priority: 29 Sep 2006
Published: US 2014/0200583 A117 Jul 2014
Granted: 17 Oct 2017
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification24 codes

A61B 17/82
Internal fixation devices , including fasteners and spinal fixators, even if a part thereof projects from the skin: for bone cerclage
A61B 17/0401
For suturing wounds; Holders or packages for needles or suture materials: suture anchors, buttons or pledgets, i.e. means for attaching sutures to…
A61B 17/683
Internal fixation devices , including fasteners and spinal fixators, even if a part thereof projects from the skin: comprising bone transfixation…
A61B 17/842
Fasteners therefor or fasteners being internal fixation devices: flexible wires, bands or straps

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