Scapho-Lunate Fixation Implants™ Surgical Kit
The Scapho-Lunate Fixation Implants™ Surgical Kit is an implant assembly useful in wrist bone fixation surgeries. It consists of a plate configured to be implanted into the scaphoid and a second plate configure to be implanted into the lunate. Theses plates are coupled together by a rotatable rod.
The rod and plate assembly holds the alignment of the Scapho-Lunate Fixation Implants™ while the body incorporates the natural tissue into the scaphoid and lunate. This is not designed to replace the scapho-lunate ligament, but rather to enhance the natural tissue repair. The Scapho-Lunate Fixation Implants™ provide sufficient strength for enhancing the repair during early motion. Natural repair without the use of the Scapho-Lunate Fixation Implants™ would not be as strong. The Scapho-Lunate Fixation Implants™ are designed to supplement the strength of these tissues for the life of the patient. The patient’s natural repair mechanisms combined with the Scapho-Lunate Fixation Implants™ increase the strength of the repair and expand the final range of motion in the wrist.
PRODUCT FEATURES & BENEFITS
Special features
- Easier for the operating surgeon to implement
- Reduces the time a patient needs to wear a cast after the surgery
- Includes the same, or similar, modulus of elasticity as bone
- Has better results and reliability for the patient over current devices and methods
- Provides more consistent and reliable assemblies and surgical techniques to treat SLD than what is currently being used
- It allows movement in three different planes (dorsal-volar, radio-ulnar, and rotational movement)
- Provides a system and method that can treat both acute and chronic cases of SLD in which the dissociation can still be reduced to an anatomical alignment
- Allows the patient to have early motion between the carpal bones and the radius after the surgery, while still retaining a reliable repair that will improve the final functionality of the wrist
- Includes a cutting jig with an outline of the fixation device, configured to allow a health provider to cut the shape of the fixation device into the scaphoid and lunate
- Provides a superior interface with small bones
- Provides enough stabilizing fixation that it allows early active motion of the wrist by the patient
PRODUCT DETAILS
Materials needed to produce the Scapho-Lunate Fixation Implants™ Surgical Kit:
- Fixation device
- Two plates
- One hole
- Rectangular
- Concave outward faces
- Perforations
- Kirschner wire
- Carbon based
- 4” to 8” in length
- 026” to 0.062” in diameter
- Pyrocarbon or other turbostratic carbons
- Kirschner wire
- Rod
- Lateral
- Rotatable
- Titanium
- Cylindrical
- 1” or less in length
- Cutting jig
- Impactor tamp
- 2 Sheaths
- Alignment jig
- Handle
- Horizontal extension
- 2 Pegs
- Anchors
- Hemispheres
The Scapho-Lunate Fixation Implants™ Surgical Kit is covered by
United States Utility Patent: 8,133,283
For additional information, licensing opportunities, and a full prospectus on the Scapho-Lunate Fixation Implants™ Surgical Kit contact:
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VP of Business Development
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