3486results about "Joint implants" patented technology

The invention provides a tibial plateau assembly and a knee joint prosthesis with the tibial plateau assembly.The tibial plateau assembly comprises a first driving part arranged on a tibial plateau and hinged to a tibial pad, the first driving part has a first driving state and a first static state, and when the first driving part is in the first driving state, the first driving part drives the tibial pad to rotate; the first driving piece can stretch out and draw back in the direction from the tibia platform to the tibia gasket; the second driving piece and the first driving piece are arranged on the tibia platform in a spaced mode, the second driving piece is hinged to the tibia gasket, the second driving piece has a second driving state and a second static state, and when the second driving piece is in the second driving state, the second driving piece can stretch out and draw back in the direction from the tibia platform to the tibia gasket; the first driving part and the second driving part are matched to adjust the distance and / or the inclination angle between the tibia gasket and the tibia platform. According to the technical scheme, the problem that the relative position between the tibia gasket and the tibia platform cannot be adjusted in the prior art is effectively solved.

A trial neck for hip surgery and a method of attaching a trial neck to a femoral canal implement. The trial neck includes a body portion including a bore for receiving a proximal end of a femoral canal implement. The trial neck also includes an elongate neck extending from the body portion. The trial neck further includes a locking mechanism comprising a lever. The lever has a first end. The lever also has a second end. The lever further has an engagement surface. The second end of the lever is actuable to urge the engagement surface against the proximal end of the femoral canal implement to secure the proximal end of the femoral canal implement within the bore.

The present application relates to chondrocyte compositions and kits comprising morselized cartilage tissue particles and a biodegradable matrix. Applications and methods of using the chondrocyte composition for cartilage grafts, repairing cartilage injuries and defects, and joint repair are provided.

The invention belongs to the technical field of orthopedic surgery navigation, discloses a communication and positioning integrated orthopedic surgery navigation method and system based on multi-dimensional perception, and aims to solve the problems that in an existing orthopedic navigation technology, optical navigation is prone to being shielded, multipath interference of UWB positioning is serious, and real-time performance is insufficient. Comprising the steps of obtaining measurement values including positioning data of a UWB positioning module, ranging data of a laser ranging module and an attitude angle of an IMU module; according to the method, extended Kalman filtering is adopted, positioning data of a UWB positioning module, ranging data of a laser ranging module and an attitude angle of an IMU module are taken as state vectors, dynamic adjustment of credibility is realized by adjusting a process noise matrix of a state equation and a measurement noise matrix of a measurement equation according to task characteristics, and the credibility of the UWB positioning module is improved according to data of different credibility. And resolving the pose state of the tail end of the surgical instrument. The method has the advantages of high positioning precision, high response speed, high environmental adaptability and high resource efficiency.

A method of preparing and / or delivering an osteochondral plug may include, positioning a tissue graft on a cutting guide, wherein the tissue graft may have been removed from a larger body of tissue to define a shaped surface. The tissue graft may include a top surface having a cartilage surface. The method may further include advancing a first cutter along a cutting direction toward the tissue graft to cut the tissue graft to form the osteochondral plug having an external wall parallel to the cutting direction and transverse to the top surface. Positioning the tissue graft on the cutting guide may include placing the shaped surface on a registration surface of the cutting guide. The registration surface may have a reference shape that corresponds to a shape of at least part of the shaped surface.

An expandable interbody with a modular endplate has an outer column, an inner column threadedly coupled and translatable relative to the outer column along the longitudinal axis, and an expansion ring to adjust a body length of the expandable interbody. The expansion ring has a plurality of teeth, and the outer column has at least one arm for engaging a tooth of the plurality of teeth to lock the expansion ring. The inner column and / or outer column can include a connector for connection to a modular endplate that has a substantially hollow core. The modular endplate includes a plate with a set screw entrapped therein. The modular endplate has an aperture to receive the connector of the inner and / or outer column.

An apparatus, system, and method may be used to replace a natural or artificial articular surface of a joint, and to repair a bone that is associated with the joint. In some embodiments, the apparatus, system, and method may include a joint replacement prosthesis with a prosthetic articular surface, a support structure securable to the bone, and a first attachment interface. The system may also include a bone plate with a bone engagement surface securable to the bone on either side of a fracture formed in the bone, or a damaged area of the bone. The bone plate may include a second attachment interface that is attachable to the first attachment interface of the joint replacement prosthesis in order to couple the bone plate to the joint replacement prosthesis.

The invention relates to a tibial plateau prosthesis. The tibial plateau prosthesis mainly comprises a tibial spacer, a tibial plateau and a sleeve. The tibia gasket is provided with a first fixing block and three arc-shaped holes, and movable second fixing blocks are arranged in the holes. The tibial plateau comprises a plateau support with open holes and a shell, and the open holes are formed in the side portion and the bottom of the shell. The screw penetrates through the gasket and the platform support to be inserted into the shell, and outer threads of the screw are meshed with inner threads of the sleeve. The sleeve moves upwards and extends out of the side hole of the shell through a hinged connecting rod system to penetrate into the medullary cavity to enhance fixation. A spring is arranged in the screw to drive the first pushing part and can be matched with the sleeve to prevent downward movement; and meanwhile, the second pushing part in the screw can extend into the medullary cavity from the bottom through threads. The design realizes multidirectional fixation and improves the stability of the prosthesis.

Disclosed methods, devices, and systems are suitable for performing minimally-invasive procedures for accessing the intervertebral space along an oblique pathway with an insertion instrument that holds a disc implant, and reorienting the angular relationship between instrument and implant while the implant is inside the body (for example at or within the disc space).

A trial neck piece for a joint endoprosthesis is designed for temporary arrangement on a separate shaft body (60) that is insertable into a tubular bone (9). It comprises a fastening region (12) which can be plugged temporarily onto a head part (61) of the shaft body (60) by means of a plug connection (l l), and a neck region (IO) for receiving a joint element (19) of the joint endoprosthesis. The trial neck piece (I) is designed as a separate, plug-on attachment piece which, with its fastening region (12), can be plugged with form-fit engagement onto the head part (61) and locked. A latching device (2) is provided which comprises a plurality of latching stages for different height stages of the trial neck piece (I). The invention thus makes available an easily attachable trial neck piece which can be arranged in a defined manner in different height positions in order, on the one hand, to obtain a secure and defined arrangement and, on the other hand, to permit the setting of different heights. The invention further relates to an arrangement with a trial neck piece and with an excavating tool, in particular a reamer, and to an instrument set comprising a trial neck piece and an insertion instrument.

Computer implemented methods, systems, and computer products employing program code or algorithms for use in customized patient specific hip implants or femoral stems or sleeves having an outer surface that corresponds more closely to the inner surface of the cortical bone of a patient's femur compared to conventional hip implant or femoral stems or sleeves based on population-based design.

Orthopedic implants and related surgical methods for using same. The implants have suture bore geometries that facilitate performance of the surgical methods, thereby providing for improved optimal biomechanical force application in various anatomies. The implants include suture bores that have an angled / diagonal, or skewed, orientation within the anatomical planes (lateral / sagittal and frontal / coronal). The suture bores have the skewed orientation so that the adjacent soft tissues (i.e., tendons or ligaments) can be advanced via the suture therethrough in superior-inferior and inferior-superior directions. Openings, or holes, at the ends of the suture bores are configured to approximate the adjacent associated soft tissue to the implant.

A system for robot-assisted surgery includes a surgical robot having a robotic arm, an end effector coupled to the robotic arm, wherein the end effector is adapted to receive, translate, and orient a navigated surgical instrument; a camera tracking system adapted to intra-operatively track a pose of the navigated surgical instrument relative to a defined coordinate system; and a computer platform including a processor and a memory. In embodiments, the computer platform operative to display to a user an image of a target location on the patient and the pose of the navigated surgical instrument; and selectively control translation and orientation of the navigated surgical instrument based on a defined operational mode, to perform a surgical process under user control that comprises one or more of: reaming an acetabulum of the patient to a planned center of an acetabular prosthesis, or positioning the acetabular prosthesis in the reamed acetabulum.

A system and computer-implemented method for manufacturing an orthopedic implant involves analyzing tissue characteristics based on image data of anatomy. Image data of a patient can be analyzed to identify at least one tissue characteristic at different locations along anatomic elements of anatomy of interest. A patient-specific implant configuration can be determined based on the analysis of the image data of a patient.

According to one example, a tibial prosthesis that can include a tibial bearing component, tibial baseplate, an insert and a fastener. The tibial bearing component can have medial and lateral proximal articular surfaces and an opposing distal surface. The tibial bearing component can define at least one recess therein with the recess having an opening at a periphery of the tibial bearing component. The tibial baseplate can be coupled to the tibial bearing component on the proximal surface thereof and having a distal surface configured to be disposed on a resected proximal surface of a tibia. The insert can be configured to be disposed within the recess and can engage the tibial baseplate and the tibial bearing component. The fastener can be insertable into the tibial bearing component and can be configured to retain the insert to the tibial baseplate.

The utility model provides a multi-curvature ankle joint prosthesis which comprises a tibia prosthesis connected with a tibia, a talus prosthesis connected with a talus and a cushion block with one side connected with the tibia prosthesis, a joint contact surface is arranged on the other side of the cushion block, and a talus contact surface matched with the joint contact surface is arranged on one side of the talus prosthesis. The curvature of the sagittal plane Z in the talus contact face is reduced from front to back, and the instantaneous rotation center of the talus prosthesis on the joint contact face is in an arc shape. According to the multi-curvature ankle joint prosthesis, the talus contact face and the anatomical structure of the human body are high in consistency, the natural form and the motion mode of the ankle joint are accurately restored, the ankle joint prosthesis better conforms to biomechanics and kinematics in the motion process, the motion stability of the human body is improved, local friction stress of the ankle joint prosthesis is smaller, and the ankle joint prosthesis is more stable in motion. And the service life of the ankle joint prosthesis is prolonged, so that the durability of the ankle joint prosthesis is improved.

The invention relates to a bionic meniscus 3D printing method and system, and the method comprises the steps: reading a meniscus STL model, carrying out the data preprocessing of the data of the model, and carrying out the construction to obtain a concave envelope contour; performing offset processing and four-curve segmentation to generate an elliptic equation fiber field; establishing a bidirectional mapping relation between a parameter space of an elliptic equation fiber field and a meniscus physical space based on an RBF mapping theory; based on a meniscus fiber density gradient change theory, performing simulation in a parameter space of the elliptic equation fiber field to obtain a bionic gradient fiber field; according to the meniscus STL model, the bidirectional mapping relation and the bionic gradient fiber field, fiber path coordinates of a meniscus physical space are obtained, and a 3D printing path is generated; and printing according to the 3D printing path to obtain the bionic meniscus. Precise simulation of a natural meniscus complex fiber structure is achieved through mathematical modeling, and the technical problems that in the prior art, fiber field control precision is insufficient, and regional characteristics are difficult to achieve are solved.

The invention provides a medical implant, a preparation method thereof and an artificial knee joint. The medical implant comprises a macromolecular porous stent and a hydrogel composite material at least filled in pores of the macromolecular porous stent, and the material of the macromolecular porous stent comprises a degradable macromolecular material and carbon nanotubes distributed in the degradable macromolecular material. The hydrogel composite material comprises a hydrogel material matrix and seed cells distributed in the hydrogel material matrix. According to the invention, the degradable high polymer material and the hydrogel material are combined, the carbon nanotubes are introduced into the degradable high polymer material, and meanwhile, seed cells are arranged in a hydrogel material matrix, so that the implantable stent material which has proper degradation performance and good mechanical properties and is renewable is provided.

The invention discloses a bionic heterogeneous composite structure bone implant and a preparation method thereof, and relates to the technical field of medical implants.The bionic heterogeneous composite structure bone implant comprises an inner-layer cross-shaped structure, a middle-layer negative Poisson's ratio structure and an outer-layer honeycomb structure, and the cross-shaped structure, the negative Poisson's ratio structure and the honeycomb structure jointly form a bionic composite structure; and immersing the bionic composite structure subjected to double-network crosslinking into a drug-containing solution for post-treatment and drug loading to obtain the bionic heterogeneous composite structure. According to the invention, bionic adaptation and intelligent optimization of mechanical properties are realized, and the stress shielding problem is solved; according to the invention, osseointegration and vascularization processes are obviously accelerated and enhanced, and leap-type improvement of biological activity is realized; a novel intelligent treatment mode based on in-vivo microenvironment response is developed, and on-demand and accurate drug delivery is achieved.

Minimally-invasive spinal surgery methods, devices, and systems for advancing a spinal implant through an oblique anterolateral retroperitoneal operative corridor to an intervertebral disc space located between the L5 and S1 vertebral bodies of a subject positioned in a lateral decubitus position are described. An example spinal implant system includes a retractor sized and shaped to establish at least a portion of the oblique anterolateral retroperitoneal operative corridor, a spinal implant sized and shaped to pass between the first and second unitary retractor blades of the retractor in connection with the spinal implant being introduced into the intervertebral disc space via the oblique anterolateral retroperitoneal operative corridor, and an introducer instrument configured to pass between the first and second unitary retractor blades of the retractor in connection with the introducer instrument introducing the spinal implant into the intervertebral disc space via the oblique anterolateral retroperitoneal operative corridor.

An insert for use in a knee prosthesis is disclosed. In one embodiment, the insert includes a medial compartment and a lateral compartment. The medial compartment includes a top surface having a concave surface or curve with a more posterior sulcus and increased anterior lip. The lateral compartment includes a top surface having at least a segment or portion with a convex surface or curve. Thus arranged, the insert is arranged and configured to provide improved stability for varying grades of PCL deficiencies compared to existing inserts that have a mid-line sulcus and lateral convexity. In addition, the insert provides improved lateral posterior translation compared to existing designs with a concave or flat lateral articulation that lack a lateral posterior convexity.

An expandable vertebral device includes a base assembly having end portions that are movable relative to one another via adjustment of an adjustment mechanism at the first end portion. A plurality of movable plates are movably disposed at the base assembly and are at least vertically movable relative to the base assembly as the end portions are moved relative to one another. Each of the end portions has a pair of vertical guide elements and may have a pair of lateral guide elements. Each of the movable plates includes a vertical guide that moves along the respective vertical guide element and may have a lateral guide that moves along a respective lateral guide element. When the adjustment mechanism is adjusted to draw the end portions toward one another, the movable plates move outward from a longitudinal axis of the base assembly as the guides move along the respective guide elements.

The invention provides a temporomandibular artificial joint replacement device, a preparation method and a surgical robot system.The temporomandibular artificial joint replacement device is characterized in that a mandibular fixing support is fixedly connected with the outer side face of the mandible of the human body, a temporal bone fixing support is fixedly connected with the outer side face of the temporal bone of the human body, a containing cavity is formed in a glenoid fossa liner, and a spherical joint head is movably arranged in the containing cavity; a base layer, a variable-rigidity elastic buffer layer and a surface layer are sequentially arranged on the inner wall of the containing cavity in the thickness direction of the side wall of the glenoid fossa liner. By means of the temporal-mandibular artificial joint replacement device, efficient simulation of the temporal-mandibular joint replacement device on a real human body temporal-mandibular joint structure can be achieved, the structural strength and the use comfort of the temporal-mandibular artificial joint replacement device are improved, and based on artificial intelligence and a surgical robot auxiliary technology, the device is simple in structure and convenient to use. The preparation function of the temporomandibular artificial joint replacement device matched with the human tissue structure and the automatic assembly surgical operation are achieved.

Expandable fusion devices, systems, instruments, and methods thereof. The expandable fusion implant may include an upper endplate and a lower endplate configured to engage adjacent vertebrae, an actuation gear configured to adjust a height of the upper endplate, an interface collar configured to attach to an inserter instrument at multiple orientations for a desired surgical approach, and an expansion and orientation lock configured to lock the orientation of the interface collar and lock the height of the upper endplate. The expandable fusion device is attachable to the inserter instrument to secure the interface collar and disengage the lock from the actuation gear to permit expansion of the upper endplate.

The present application is directed a Joint Revision Surgery Apparatus which includes a surgical knife blade guide block which has a plurality of rearward blade guide slots, a central cavity and a plurality of guide slots having a two-way adjustable L-shaped guide plate. The surgical knife blade guide block central cavity houses a stem trunnion securing member and is positioned over the trunnion end of the existing prosthesis to be removed and secured to the prothesis. The guide blade block is secured to the trunnion of the prosthesis to be extracted using a stem trunnion securing member housed within the guide block. Straight, curved and compound curved knife blades are guided by the blade guide slots to cut the prothesis free. The Joint Revision Surgery Apparatus facilitates rapid, efficient and complete removal of an existing prosthesis during joint revision surgery, and significantly increases positive medical outcomes for joint revision procedures.

The present disclosure relates to computer-implemented methods (100) for generating a virtual model of a first section of bone tissue including cortical bone tissue. The method comprises (104) obtaining microstructural cortical parameters including an indication of a number of osteons (210) and of a cross-sectional area of the osteons, a number of lamellae (212) forming the osteons, an indication of locations of osteons in the section of bone tissue and of dominance of the osteons. The method further comprises generating a virtual model using a generative design algorithm comprising (1061) defining a geometric space, (1062) generating a cortical cloud of points, (1064) segmenting the geometric space into substantially circular regions, defining an outer surface of the osteons. The method further comprises (1065) forming consecutive substantially concentric surfaces corresponding to the lamellae until the obtained virtual model satisfies boundary conditions formed by the microstructural cortical parameters.

According to one example, a for revision knee arthroplasty is disclosed. According to this example, the method can include shaping a bone of a patient to create one or more recesses therein, selecting a stem provisional, disposing the stem provisional within the one or more recesses, and assembling in vivo the stem provisional with both a first provisional component configured to simulate a shape of one of a tibial tray implant or a femoral implant and a second provisional component configured to simulate a shape of at least one of a sleeve component, a cone component or a keel component of an implant.

Systems and methods for joint replacement are provided. The systems and methods include a surgical orientation device, a reference sensor device, and at least one orthopedic fixture. The surgical orientation device, reference sensor device, and orthopedic fixtures can be used to locate the orientation of an axis in the body, to adjust an orientation of a cutting plane or planes along a bony surface, or otherwise to assist in an orthopedic procedure(s).

Disclosed herein is a system and method for performing pre-operative planning of total joint arthroplasty. The planning tool builds a model and analyzes and visualizes movement of the joint for various selections of implant models and placement of the components on the implants on the patient's anatomy. The tool also analyzes and visualizes motions of the joint during common activities of daily living and analyzes and functional ranges. The tool provides real time clinically relevant parameters to inform pre-surgery planning. The tool provides screw orientation visualization.

Systems and methods for designing and implementing patient-specific surgical procedures and / or medical devices are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method includes receiving intra-operative data during a surgical procedure to install a patient-specific implant in a patient. The system can compare the intra-operative data to a pre-operative plan to determine whether the implant is positioned and located according to the pre-operative plan.