Systems, devices and apparatuses for bony fixation and disk repair and replacement methods related thereto

US8721647B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• K2M, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Allen Carl · Slingerlands, US
• Josef Winkler · Kipfenberg, DE
• Robert F. Beisel · Sinking Spring, US
• Spanky Raymond · Uniontown, US
• Daniel S. Savage · Henderson, US
• Jason J. Gromek · Cleveland, US
• Carl Michael Nilsson · Cleveland Heights, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 17, 2012
• Grant date: May 13, 2014
• Expiry date: Jan 26, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61B17/8875
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The present invention features new methods, apparatuses and devices for fixing adjacent bone segments, segments of a bony structure and adjacent vertebrate of a spine. The methods, apparatuses and devices utilize a new apparatus for forming a channel in a surface of the bone or bony structure segments or adjacent vertebra or a channel submerged within the bone or bony structure segments or adjacent vertebra. In more particular embodiments such apparatuses and methods including forming an arcuate channel and which channel can receive therein a curved rod or implant member, which also preferably is arcuate, and avoids the associated problems with prior cage or straight rod and screw systems. Also featured are systems, apparatuses and methods for repairing, replacing or augmenting the nucleus and/or annulus of a disc.