US 11,849,933 B2
Bone align and joint preparation device and method
Greg Denham, Warsaw, IN (US); Ryan Schlotterback, Fort Wayne, IN (US); and Daren Granger, Warsaw, IN (US)
Assigned to MEDARTIS AG, Basel (CH)
Filed by Nextremity Solutions, Inc., Warsaw, IN (US)
Filed on Apr. 23, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/238,920.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/015,052, filed on Apr. 24, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0330311 A1, Oct. 28, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 17/02 (2006.01); A61B 17/15 (2006.01); A61B 17/56 (2006.01); A61B 17/68 (2006.01); A61B 17/17 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/025 (2013.01) [A61B 17/15 (2013.01); A61B 17/151 (2013.01); A61B 17/1775 (2016.11); A61B 2017/564 (2013.01); A61B 2017/565 (2013.01); A61B 2017/681 (2013.01)] 24 Claims
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11. A method for use in bone displacement, comprising:
inserting a first wire through an anchoring portion of a bone displacement mechanism into a first bone;
releasably connecting an alignment paddle to the bone displacement mechanism;
inserting the paddle between the first bone and a second bone;
inserting a second wire through a distal body of the bone displacement mechanism distal to the anchoring portion into the second bone distal to the first bone; and
moving the distal body and the second bone toward a lateral body of the bone displacement mechanism located laterally relative to the distal body and the anchoring portion to adjust an alignment of axes of the first bone and the second bone relative to each other;
wherein the distal body is connected to the anchoring portion and the literal portion by an intermediate body, the intermediate body connected to the lateral body by a ratchet connector and the moving the distal body and the second bone toward the lateral body comprises ratcheting the intermediate body toward the lateral body on the ratchet connector.