Abstract: A fusion rod includes mounting structures located at different places thereon, and a first flexible element attached to one of the mounting structures and a second flexible element attached to another of the mounting structures.

Abstract: Hypo-tube based support catheter (1) for treating blood vessels, such as below the knee (BTK) blood vessels and other blood vessels (e.g., coronary, pediatric), which are partially or totally occluded. The tip of the support catheter (1) of the invention is shapeable to any desired shape before the insertion of the device into the blood vessel. The disclosed device enables improved angioplasty treatment of blood vessels, especially with a retrograde approach.

Abstract: A fusion rod includes mounting structures located at different places thereon, and a first flexible element attached to one of the mounting structures and a second flexible element attached to another of the mounting structures.

Abstract: A surgical tool adaptor includes a distal interface member and a handle. The distal interface member includes a connecting element for connecting to a surgical tool. A K-wire connector is disposed in a central passageway for receiving therethrough a K-wire. The K-wire connector includes a locking element for locking the K-wire. A clutch mechanism is operatively connected to the distal interface member and to the K-wire connector, wherein in a first orientation of the clutch mechanism, the distal interface member and the K-wire connector move together, and in a second orientation of the clutch mechanism, the distal interface member is declutched from the K-wire connector, so that in the first orientation movement of the handle moves the distal interface member and the K-wire connector together, and in the second orientation the distal interface member and the K-wire connector move independently of each other.

Abstract: A surgical tool adaptor includes a distal interface member and a handle. The distal interface member includes a connecting element for connecting to a surgical tool. A K-wire connector is disposed in a central passageway for receiving therethrough a K-wire. The K-wire connector includes a locking element for locking the K-wire. A clutch mechanism is operatively connected to the distal interface member and to the K-wire connector, wherein in a first orientation of the clutch mechanism, the distal interface member and the K-wire connector move together, and in a second orientation of the clutch mechanism, the distal interface member is declutched from the K-wire connector, so that in the first orientation movement of the handle moves the distal interface member and the K-wire connector together, and in the second orientation the distal interface member and the K-wire connector move independently of each other.

Abstract: A method for manipulating a vertebra includes connecting a first bone anchor to a first vertebra, connecting a second bone anchor to a second bone anchor, positioning a spinal rod in a receiving member of the first bone anchor and in a receiving member of the second bone anchor, connecting a first instrument to the receiving member of the first bone anchor, and manipulating the first instrument to rotate first bone anchor and the first vertebra relative to the second vertebra.

Abstract: Device and method for puncturing blood vessels while using fluoroscopy. The disclosed device enables improved needle orientation control and avoids direct exposure of the clinician's hand to X-ray during the puncturing procedure.

Abstract: Hypo-tube based support catheter (1) for treating blood vessels, such as below the knee (BTK) blood vessels and other blood vessels (e.g., coronary, pediatric), which are partially or totally occluded. The tip of the support catheter (1) of the invention is shapeable to any desired shape before the insertion of the device into the blood vessel. The disclosed device enables improved angioplasty treatment of blood vessels, especially with a retrograde approach.

Abstract: Device and method for capturing guidewires inside blood vessels. The disclosed device enables retrieval of guidewires that need to be pulled from the body at a different location than the guidewire entering location, such as guidewires that have entered in a retrograde direction.

Abstract: A micro-catheter (10) including a hypo-tube including a proximal section (13) and a distal section (12) and a sharp tip (11) formed at a distal end of the distal section (12), characterized in that the proximal section (13) of the micro-catheter (10) is formed with a plurality of cuts (23) which are not perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the proximal section (13), the cuts (23) being made partially around a circumference of the proximal section (13) with uncut portions separating the cuts (23) from one another.

Abstract: A rod reduction device is provided having a reduction nut adapted to mate to the rod-receiving portion of a spinal implant, and a driver tool that is effective to engage the reduction nut such that rotation of the driver tool rotates the reduction nut to reduce a rod positioned between the reduction nut and within the rod-receiving head of a spinal implant into the rod-seating portion of the head of the spinal implant. The driver tool can include a support 32 formed on a distal end thereof that is adapted to be disposed within the rod-receiving head of a spinal implant to prevent the rod-receiving head of the implant from collapsing during use of the rod reduction device.

Abstract: A rod reduction device is provided having a reduction nut adapted to mate to the rod-receiving portion of a spinal implant, and a driver tool that is effective to engage the reduction nut such that rotation of the driver tool rotates the reduction nut to reduce a rod positioned between the reduction nut and within the rod-receiving head of a spinal implant into the rod-seating portion of the head of the spinal implant. The driver tool can include a support 32 formed on a distal end thereof that is adapted to be disposed within the rod-receiving head of a spinal implant to prevent the rod-receiving head of the implant from collapsing during use of the rod reduction device.