Carpal tunnel release apparatus and method

Details Carpal tunnel release apparatus and method Carpal tunnel release apparatus and method

1998-12-10

2000-02-01

Buiz, Michael

Surgery

Instruments

Cutting, puncturing or piercing

A61B 1732

Patent

active

060197749

ABSTRACT:
A carpal tunnel release apparatus and method including a surgical knife including an elongated handle having a forward portion and a rearward portion with the forward portion of the handle terminating in a cutting head. The cutting head has top edge and a bottom edge with the cutting head terminating in a substantially linear cutting edge extending from proximate the bottom edge of the cutting head toward the top edge of the cutting head. The cutting edge intersects and forms an angle with an upper guide finger which is the only structure which projects forwardly past the plane of the cutting edge and which at least partially forms the top edge of the cutting head. The guide apparatus includes an elongated bar defining one or more elongated grooves therein. A bottom portion of the forward portion of the knife is at least partially receivable within the groove of the guide member such that lateral movement of the forward portion is substantially restricted and such that the forward portion of the handle is slidably movable forward or backward while guided within the groove.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4026295 (1977-05-01), Lieberman

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