Abstract: Surgical methods and fixation devices for bone fixation and stabilization on a patient include exposing at least a portion of a first phalanx and a second phalanx at a joint of a patient; creating a passage in an intramedullary canal of the first phalanx; inserting a first head portion of a fixation device along the passage in the intramedullary canal in a translating manner past the cancellous bone in the phalanx until the head portion engages the subchondral bone at a base of the first phalanx, the fixation device having an opposing second head portion extending out of the passage from the first phalanx; and introducing the second phalanx onto the second head portion so that the second head portion anchors in the second phalanx.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 12, 2014
Publication date:
September 18, 2014
Applicant:
Arrowhead Medical Device Technologies LLC
Abstract: An internal intramedullary fixation device for the stabilization of bone in arthrodesis and fractures of the foot and hand is disclosed. During implantation in the medullary canal of each bone, the device grasps the edges of the canal, stabilizing the bone (internally) during the natural healing process.
Type:
Application
Filed:
January 23, 2014
Publication date:
May 15, 2014
Applicant:
Arrowhead Medical Device Technologies, LLC
Abstract: An internal intramedullary fixation device for the stabilization of bone in arthrodesis and fractures of the foot and hand is disclosed. During implantation in the medullary canal of each bone, the device grasps the edges of the canal, stabilizing the bone (internally) during the natural healing process.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 11, 2011
Date of Patent:
April 1, 2014
Assignee:
Arrowhead Medical Device Technologies, LLC
Abstract: An internal intramedullary fixation device for the stabilization of bone in arthrodesis and fractures of the foot and hand is disclosed. During implantation in the medullary canal of each bone, the device grasps the edges of the canal, stabilizing the bone (internally) during the natural healing process.
Type:
Application
Filed:
April 11, 2011
Publication date:
October 20, 2011
Applicant:
Arrowhead Medical Device Technologies, LLC.