Si-bone Inc.

University of Minnesota

David W Polly

Bret W Schneider

Francois Follini

Mark A Reiley

Scott A Yerby

Paul M Sand

Isador H Lieberman

Frank Martin Phillips

Ali H Mesiwala

Derek P Lindsey

Nikolas F Kerr

Patrick Kahn

Jeffrey B Phelps

Christopher I Shaffrey

Phillip J Singer

Robert K Eastlack

Juan S Uribe

Mary E Stuart

Bharat M Desai

Michael J Gardner

Nikolai G Rainov

Craig S Bartlett

GianLuigi Moro

Sven H Van Helden

Kyle L Nishkian

Jed S Vanichkachorn

Andy J Kranenburg

Sharad S Rajpal

Arthur Guy Erdman

Evan Mark Gustafson

David Nuckley

Timothy J Pommer

Charles Gerald Tan Ledonio

Gianluigi Moro

Bret William Schneider

Bone implants, including methods of use and assembly. The bone implants, which are optionally composite implants, generally include a distal anchoring region and a growth region that is proximal to the distal anchoring region. The distal anchoring region can have one or more distal surface features that adapt the distal anchoring region for anchoring into iliac bone. The growth region can have one or more growth features that adapt the growth region to facilitate at least one of bony on-growth, in-growth, or through-growth. The implants may be positioned along a posterior sacral alar-iliac ('SAI') trajectory. The implants may be coupled to one or more bone stabilizing constructs, such as rod elements thereof.

Implants for spinal fixation and or fusion

Threaded sacro-iliac joint stabilization (e.g., fusion, fixation) implants and methods of implantation and manufacture. Some implants include a threaded distal region, an optionally threaded central region, and an optionally threaded proximal region. The distal, central, and proximal regions have lengths such that when the implant is laterally implanted across a SI joint, the distal region can be positioned in a sacrum, the central region can be positioned across an SI-joint, and the proximal region can be positioned in an ilium.

Bone stabilizing implants and methods of placement across si joints

Bone stabilizing implants and methods of placement across SI Joints

Bone stabilizing implants and methods of placement across SI joints

The present invention generally relates to bone implants. More specifically, the present invention relates to bone implants used for the fixation and or fusion of the sacroiliac joint and/or the spine. For example, a system for fusing and or stabilizing a plurality of bones is provided. The system includes an implant structure having a shank portion, a body portion and a head portion. The body portion is coupled to the shank portion and is configured to be placed through a first bone segment, across a bone joint or fracture and into a second bone segment. The body portion is configured to allow for bony on-growth, ingrowth and through-growth. The head portion is coupled to the proximal end of the shank portion and is configured to couple the shank portion to a stabilizing rod. Methods of use are also disclosed.

A spinal probe comprises a handle, a shaft coupled to the handle and a force sensor to detect forces applied to a tip of the shaft. A controller that executes a predictive algorithm to predict whether or not the tip of the shaft is going to breach a cortex of a pedicle based on the detected forces. The controller may be embedded within the spinal probe or external within a computer or other device coupled to the probe by a data acquisition component.

Spinal probe with tactile force feedback and pedicle breach prediction

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Edina, MN, United States of America

David W Polly