Support fixture for setting a fractured distal radius

Details Support fixture for setting a fractured distal radius Support fixture for setting a fractured distal radius

1999-06-22

2000-09-26

Buiz, Michael

Surgery

Instruments

Orthopedic instrumentation

A61B 1756

Patent

active

061237043

ABSTRACT:
A support fixture for setting a fractured distal radius includes a housing having a strap for fastening the fixture to the patient's forearm, a sliding section, sliding within the housing as a screw is rotated, and a pivoting section extending from a distal end of the sliding section. The sliding section also includes a structure for supporting the patient's wrist. The distal end of the pivoting section includes a pair of fingertraps. Two of the patient's fingers are held in the fingertraps, while an extension force is applied between his forearm and hand through the rotation of the screw, and while his hand is twisted by adjusting the angle of the pivoting section to increase the gap between fractured sections of bone, causing reduction of the fracture to occur.

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Henry Gray, F.R.S., Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical, Facsimile of the 1901 edition, reproduced by Barnes & Noble Books, 1995, p. 389.

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