US 12,364,522 B2
Metatarsophalangeal joint preparation and metatarsal realignment for fusion
William T. DeCarbo, Mars, PA (US); Paul Dayton, Ankeny, IA (US); W. Bret Smith, Lexington, SC (US); Robert D. Santrock, Morgantown, WV (US); Daniel J. Hatch, Greeley, CO (US); and Jody McAleer, Jefferson City, MO (US)
Assigned to Treace Medical Concepts, Inc., Ponte Vedra, FL (US)
Filed by Treace Medical Concepts, Inc., Ponte Vedra, FL (US)
Filed on Apr. 10, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/297,712.
Application 18/297,712 is a continuation of application No. 17/163,120, filed on Jan. 29, 2021, granted, now 11,622,797.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/968,244, filed on Jan. 31, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0240730 A1, Aug. 3, 2023
Int. Cl. A61B 17/72 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 17/68 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/7291 (2013.01) [A61B 2017/00407 (2013.01); A61B 2017/681 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of preparing a metatarsophalangeal joint for fusion, the method comprising:
preparing a distal end of a metatarsal for fusion;
preparing a proximal end of an opposed phalanx for fusion, the opposed phalanx being separated from the metatarsal by a metatarsophalangeal joint;
moving the opposed phalanx relative to the metatarsal in a frontal plane and a sagittal plane;
using an instrument engaged with the metatarsal and engaged with the opposed phalanx to compress a prepared end of the metatarsal together with a prepared end of the opposed phalanx; and
applying a bone fixation device to the metatarsal and the opposed phalanx across the metatarsophalangeal joint.