Patents Assigned to Shoulder Options, Inc.
  • Patent number: 8968371
    Abstract: Devices and systems for repairing bone fractures and more specifically a fracture repair plate that provides for fixation of a metaphysis to the diaphysis of a long bone, for instance a fracture between the proximal humerus and the diaphysis of the humerus. The fracture repair system includes an implantable repair fracture repair plate and a bone anchor for fixing the fracture repair plate to a bone. In one embodiment, the fracture repair plate may also be adapted to serve as an anchor for a suture. The fracture repair system may also include a fracture reduction mechanism attachable to the fracture repair plate for imparting a controlled translational movement between two bone segments along a plane that lies substantially parallel to the surface of the bone to which the fracture repair plate is attached and substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the bone shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Shoulder Options, Inc.
    Inventor: C. Scott Humphrey
  • Publication number: 20140163623
    Abstract: Devices and systems for repairing bone fractures and more specifically a fracture repair plate that provides for fixation of a metaphysis to the diaphysis of a long bone, for instance a fracture between the proximal humerus and the diaphysis of the humerus. The fracture repair system includes an implantable repair fracture repair plate and a bone anchor for fixing the fracture repair plate to a bone. In one embodiment, the fracture repair plate may also be adapted to serve as an anchor for a suture. The fracture repair system may also include a fracture reduction mechanism attachable to the fracture repair plate for imparting a controlled translational movement between two bone segments along a plane that lies substantially parallel to the surface of the bone to which the fracture repair plate is attached and substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the bone shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: SHOULDER OPTIONS, INC
    Inventor: C. SCOTT HUMPHREY
  • Publication number: 20130190882
    Abstract: A humeral head prosthetic device including a chassis and a head attached or attachable to the chassis. In the preferred embodiment, the chassis includes a tapered and multifaceted anchor element attached to and projecting distally from a base element, the configuration of the tapered and multifaceted anchor element adapted to counter rotation of the chassis once it is impacted into the humeral head. The preferred embodiment of humeral head prosthetic device also includes one or more blind holes each of the blind holes or slots being defined in part by a penetrable wall, each of the blind holes including a wall that may be readily penetrated in order permit insertion of a tool to aid in removal of the prosthesis where such removal is required.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2013
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: SHOULDER OPTIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Shoulder Options, Inc.
  • Patent number: 8267973
    Abstract: A fixable suture anchor plate including an anchor plate having a tunnel aperture that aligns with one or more bone tunnels formed in the bone. The anchor plate also includes one or more suture passages that align with one or more grooves formed along an edge of the anchor plate to permit passing a suture through the anchor plate after the anchor plate is fixed to the bone. The anchor plate also includes a screw hole that allows the anchor plate to be fixed to a bone with a screw. A method for tendon-to-bone repair includes sewing a medial row of stitches proximate to a medial line of tendon-to-bone attachment and securing the suture to the anchor plate through a bone tunnel and sewing a lateral row of stitches along a lateral line of tendon-to-bone attachment and securing the second suture to the anchor plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Shoulder Options, Inc.
    Inventor: Scott Humphrey
  • Patent number: D662205
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Shoulder Options, Inc.
    Inventor: C. Scott Humphrey