US 12,433,532 B2
Flexion/extension surgical guides and methods of using the same
Meghan R. Kubacki, Cookeville, TN (US); and Kian-Ming Wong, Lakeland, TN (US)
Assigned to WRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY, INC., Memphis, TN (US)
Filed by WRIGHT MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY, INC., Memphis, TN (US)
Filed on Mar. 7, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/179,488.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/365,717, filed on Jun. 2, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0389860 A1, Dec. 7, 2023
Int. Cl. A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/107 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 5/4595 (2013.01) [A61B 5/1071 (2013.01); A61B 5/6829 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A surgical guide, comprising:
a body having a first side, a second side, a third side, and a fourth side, the third and fourth sides extending between the first and second sides, wherein the body comprises a first base at said first side, a second base at said second side and an elongated extension between the first and second base; wherein the first base defines at least one first hole configured to receive at least one pin and the second base having a superior side and an inferior side; and
an engagement portion, disposed within a channel configured to allow movement of the engagement portion between the superior side and inferior side of the second base wherein the engagement portion defines at least a second hole configured to receive at least one pin sleeve and the at least one pin, an adjustment mechanism configured to lock the at least one pin in place, wherein the pin sleeve comprises at least one slot configured to engage a portion of the adjustment mechanism configured to lock a pin in place;
wherein the body is sized and configured to be installed above a joint line of a calcaneus and a talus bone and approximately mid-way along a longitudinal axis of a tibia; and
wherein the first base is configured to receive at least one dowel of a second surgical guide in the at least one first hole and the second base is configured to receive at least one pin sleeve and pin in the second hole.