Stryker European Operations Limited

Encore Medical Corporation

Stryker European Holdings I LLC

Stryker European Operations Holdings LLC

Encore Medical, LP Dba Djo Surgical

Chulho Pak

Thomas Loring

Subash K Mannanal

Victor Chan

Stephen G Gilbert

Michael Daniels

Andrew J Nelson

Anup Kumar

Andreas Wiederkehr

Pierre-Luc Sylvestre

Matthias Paulisch

Peter Sterrantino

Ulrich Spaelter

Katja Stucki

Alexis Christen

Fabian Huegle

Ryan Sellman

Noah Roberson

Rose Riemer

Keith Wapner

Michael J Coughlin

Greg Horton

James K Deorio

Stephen Gilbert

An external fixation system may include first and second fixation rings and a plurality of adjustable length struts. Each adjustable length strut may have two joints, a rod, a tube, and an actuator configured to drive the rod axially relative to the tube to change an effective length of the strut. The system may include a plurality of controller modules each configured to couple to a corresponding strut. The external fixation system may have a manual mode of operation in which the controller modules are not coupled to the struts, and manual actuation of the actuators changes the effective lengths of the struts in discrete length increments. The external fixation system may have an automated mode of operation in which the controller modules are coupled to the struts, and automated actuation of the actuators changes the effective lengths of the struts in infinitesimally small length increments.

Controller module for strut adjustment

An adjustable length strut for use in an external fixation system may include an outer tube, an inner tube within the outer tube, and a first adjustment knob. A plurality of texturized surfaces may extend in the length direction of the inner tube, each of the plurality of texturized surfaces of the inner tube being spaced apart from each other in the circumferential direction of the inner tube. Each circumferentially adjacent pair of texturized surfaces of the inner tube is separated by a non-texturized surface. The first adjustment knob may also include texturized surfaces separated by non-texturized surfaces, and may be rotatable relative to the outer tube and the inner tube between a locked condition and an unlocked condition. In the locked condition, the texturized surfaces engage each other, to prevent translation of the inner tube relative to the outer tube.

Quick release mechanism for strut

A system for treating tissue of a patient's anatomy at a target site. A localizer generates location data associated with the anatomy. A display unit overlays visual content on the anatomy within a field of view observable by a user. A visualization program on a computing device generates a virtual reference frame, identifies viable and non-viable approaches for fixation elements to engage tissue and secure a stabilizer relative to the target site based on patient-specific imaging data, arranges a virtual viability model within the virtual reference frame based on the location data and comprising viable portions associated with viable approaches and non-viable portions associated with non-viable approaches, and renders the virtual viability model in the visual content displayed by the display unit overlaid onto the anatomy within the field of view to assist the user in visualizing at least one of viable approaches and non-viable approaches.

Surgical systems and methods for facilitating tissue treatment

A trial implant is provided. The implant includes a central portion. The central portion includes a top articulating surface extending between a first end and a second end and having a convex shape, a bottom surface configured to at least partially contact a first resected surface of a bone, and a first side surface extending between the top articulating surface and the bottom surface. The first side surface is sloped such that a width of the top articulating surface is greater than a width of the bottom surface. The implant further includes a first outer portion extending laterally from the central portion. The first side surface and the first outer portion are separated by a first opening shaped such that up to four resected surfaces of the bone are visible when the trial implant is seated on the bone.

Joint instrumentation and associated methods of use

A total ankle prosthesis that includes a talar component that has a bone contacting side for contacting a talus and an articular side opposite the bone contacting side. The articular side has first and second condyles separated by an intercondylar notch. The first condyle defines a spheroidal convex surface. The prosthesis also includes a tibial component that has a bone contacting side for contacting a tibia and an articular side. The articular side has first and second condyles separated by an intercondylar spine. The first condyle of the tibial component defines a concave surface. The concave surface has a condylar edge that defines a perimeter thereof and a plurality of articular portions positioned between anterior and posterior extents of the condylar edge. A first articular portion of the articular portions is spheroidal and a second articular portion is defined by a cylindrical helix.

Total ankle prosthesis

The present disclosure includes, in one embodiment, a talar component of an ankle joint prosthesis for engagement with a talus bone having a medial side wall and a lateral side wall, opposite the medial side wall, each side wall terminating at a distal edge, and the distal edges adapted to drive into the talus bone. When implanted, the side walls may form a seal between the talus bone and the component to prevent fluid from flowing under the component.

Talar ankle implant

In one embodiment, a surgical guide structure configured for placement on a resected bone surface includes a body with at least one aperture and an opening. The at least one aperture extends through the body and is sized for placement of a hole formation instrument therethrough. Additionally, the at least one aperture is defined by an inner wall that includes a first portion having a first slope and a second portion having a second slope different from the first slope so that a cross-section of the aperture varies over its depth. The opening is sized and positioned so that when the surgical guide structure is positioned on a first resected surface of a bone, the first resected surface and a second resected surface of the bone are visible through the opening.

A tissue resection guide for use with a datum includes a base releasably engagable with the datum. The tissue resection guide has a first frame fixed relative to the base and the first frame has at least one integral first guide path that is sized and configured to at least partially capture and guide a first tissue resection tool relative to the first frame.

Surgical instrumentation and methods of use for implanting a prosthesis

In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method of alignment for resection of tissue including obtaining a surgical device comprising an alignment guide, a first guide structure and a second guide structure; securing the alignment guide to a bone, the alignment guide including a positioning block; placing the first guide structure onto the positioning block of the alignment guide; viewing a target location of a first resection plane on the bone using the first guide structure; adjusting the target location of the first resection plane by adjusting a position of the first guide structure; attaching the second guide structure to the first guide structure; viewing a target location of a second resection plane on the bone using the second guide structure; and adjusting the target location of the second resection plane by adjusting a position of the second guide structure.

A bone plate locking mechanism and methods for utilizing same are disclosed. A bone plate in accordance with the present invention includes a bone screw hole having a plurality of first lips and a plurality of second lips. The first lips are closer to the upper surface than the second lips and the first and second lips are offset around the bone screw hole.

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Mahwah, NJ, United States of America

Chulho Pak