Surgery – Instruments – Orthopedic instrumentation
Patent
1994-12-09
1998-08-04
Tucker, Guy V.
Surgery
Instruments
Orthopedic instrumentation
606 54, A61B 1766
Patent
active
057886954
ABSTRACT:
The invention serves patients having a fractured bone wherein separate parts of the bone have been immobilized by an external axial fixator, and the invention provides patient-operated mechanical structure to enable him to transiently distract spaced bone-anchored regions of the fixator. In one embodiment, the patient-operated mechanism is in the form of an accessory that is detachably mounted to the fixator; in another embodiment, the patient-operated mechanism is embodied in an external axial fixator, preferably of the so-called dynamic variety.
REFERENCES:
patent: 5108393 (1992-04-01), Ruffa
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