Patient-operated orthopedic devices

Details Patient-operated orthopedic devices Patient-operated orthopedic devices

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.

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patent: 5108393 (1992-04-01), Ruffa

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