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Imds Corporation

Stryker Spine

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Synergy Disc Replacement, Inc.

Stryker European Holdings I LLC

Biomet Sports Medicine, LLC

Innovative Spine, Llc.

Engage Medical Holdings, LLC

Medicinelodge Inc.

Stryker European Operations Holdings LLC

Pioneer Surgical Technology, Inc.

Kyocera Medical Corporation

Idtx Systems, Inc.

Joshua Butters

Nicholas Slater

Dylan M Hushka

Jeffery D Arnett

Hyun W Bae

T Wade Fallin

Neil Duggal

Rick B Delamarter

Jonathan Kagan

Lee Guterman

Mitchell Dann

Paul Swain

Mark J Mooradian

Michael D Ries

Bjorn N Rindal

Kevin T Stone

Brian K Berelsman

Daniel F Justin

Andrew R Fauth

Greta Jo Hays

Morteza M Farr

Nathan M Sautter

Carlyle J Creger

Louise C Raymond

Lee B Knox

Calvin Domenico

Edison Gieswein

James C Chow

Marlina Kessler

Jessica Paparella

Ephraim Akyuz

Struan H Coleman

Cortny Robison

Brad Anthony Niese

Thomas Baldwin

Gregory J Denham

Thomas Wade Fallin

Karen E Mohr

Nathanael K Conner

Gerard Von Hoffmann

Jordan A Hoof

Edwin P Su

Neil Etherington

Greg Fluet

James Wright

Brady R Shirley

Daniel Hayes

Jared M White

Matthew N Songer

Daniel E Gerbec

M Mary Sinnott

Thomas S Kilpela

Kingsley R Chin

Stephen H Hochschuler

Chad Wayne Lewis

Joseph Q Marietta

Michael Spandorfer

Lane Michael Johnson

Stuart Goble

Ali Araghi

Justin Hyer

Jeremy D Borchert

Takatoshi Miyashita

Daniel F Jusitn

Donald H Lee

Robert John De Hoog

Bradford J Coale

Nathan Pierce

Carson Esplin

Takao Ida

Noboru Kazumi

Jens Kather

David A Rupp

Some embodiments include a system with a sensor with electrodes including an active electrode and a receiving electrode that is in physical contact with skin of a patient forming an electrical circuit with control electronics of a controller that can measure an electrical parameter using an active electrode and a receiving electrode within a closed loop electrical muscle stimulation system. A sense electrical pulse can be applied to the tissue using the sensor, an electrical parameter measured from the tissue, and a stimulation pulse applied to the tissue based at least in part on the measured electrical parameter. The stimulation is adjustably controlled by the controller to maintain a constant power output to the tissue based on the electrical parameter. A good is coupled to a computer readable medium configured to store usage data, the usage data relating to the patient's use of the good.

Patient therapy systems and methods

A surgical instrument and method are provided for removal of a spinal implant from the intervertebral disc space. The instrument includes a carriage body for interfacing with the implant, a housing for interfacing with the vertebrae, and a handle portion having a first portion rotatably coupled with a proximal end of the housing and a second portion rotatably engageable with a proximal attachment portion of the carriage body. A central passage of the housing extends between the proximal end and a distal engagement surface of the housing. The central passage is dimensioned to mate with the carriage body. Rotation of the handle portion about an axis causes translational movement of the carriage body along the axis. A modular inserter/distractor apparatus and method and an anchor remover and method are also provided.

Intervertebral implant with integrated fixation

The present invention provides a compression and distraction shaft assembly used to apply compression and distraction to bones including vertebrae. Shaft A assembly and shaft B assembly are attached together via a polyaxial fulcrum. The polyaxial fulcrum allows all rotational degrees of freedom between shaft A assembly and shaft B assembly. Such fulcrum, during compression and distraction, does not impart ancillary stresses or motion to vertebrae. An hourglass-shaped bore for engaging pliers is formed in approximately middle of both the shaft A assembly and the shaft B assembly. Distraction pliers having cylindrical tips are used to apply distraction to vertebrae. Once handles are pressed to impart an appropriate amount of distraction to the vertebrae, they are locked in this position. Compression pliers having cylindrical tips are used to apply compression to vertebrae. Once handles are pressed to impart an appropriate amount of compression to the vertebrae, they are locked in this position.

Percutaneous compression and distraction system

A soft tissue repair device can include a housing having a handle, a deployment system having an actuation member, and an insertion system having an inserter and a slider. The slider can be coupled to the actuation member and movable relative to the inserter between deployed and retracted positions. First and second anchors can be carried on an external surface of the slider such that the anchors are spaced apart and portions of the anchors are coaxial with the slider and each other. A flexible strand can couple the anchors. The insertion system can cooperate with the deployment system to move the slider to the deployed position to deploy the first anchor upon activating the actuation member a first time, and to move the slider to the deployed position from the retracted position to deploy the second anchor upon actuating the actuation member a second time after the first time.

Soft tissue repair device and method

The present invention provides artificial disc prostheses, methods and instrumentation for implantation and revision thereof. Each prosthesis may comprise superior and inferior end plates and a nucleus positioned between articular surfaces of the end plates. The end plates may have planar bone engagement surfaces with a plurality of self-cutting teeth. The articular surfaces of the end plates may be planar or include a flattened portion. The nucleus includes superior and inferior articular surfaces which may comprise flattened portions such that when the articular surfaces of the nucleus and the end plates are placed in cooperation in a preferred orientation, the flattened and/or planar portions are aligned. Each prosthesis may provide flexion/extension, anterior/posterior translation, lateral bending, and/or axial rotation degrees of freedom. One embodiment comprises a prosthesis with a first joint providing flexion/extension and anterior/posterior translation, and a second joint providing lateral bending and axial rotation.

Systems and methods for vertebral disc replacement

Anatomic points within the body are projected outside the body through the use of extenders (). The projected points may then be used for measurement, or to facilitate the selection or configuration of an implant that is positioned proximate the anatomic points using a slotted cannula (). Such an implant may be a rod () for a posterior spinal fusion system. Pedicle screws () may be implanted into pedicles of the spine, and may then serve as anchors for the extenders. The extenders () may have rod interfaces () that receive the rod () in a manner that mimics the geometry of the pedicle screws () so that the selected or configured contoured rod () will properly fit into engagement with the pedicle screws ().

Rod contouring apparatus for percutaneous pedicle screw extension

A surgical instrument and method for inserting a spinal implant in the intervertebral disc space between two adjacent vertebrae and an anchor engageable with the implant and an adjacent vertebra are provided. The instrument includes an inserter having an engagement portion including a distal engagement surface for interfacing with the implant and a handle portion. The engagement portion includes a track for slidably translating the anchor toward the engagement surface. A kit is provided including the inserter and a tamp to force the anchor into engagement with the implant and the adjacent vertebra. The kit may also include a cutter for piercing the adjacent vertebra.

The present invention provides devices and methods for attachment of an endolumenal gastrointestinal device, such as an artificial stoma device, a gastrointestinal bypass sleeve or other therapeutic or diagnostic device, within a patient's digestive tract. In one application of the invention, an endolumenal bypass sleeve is removably attached in the vicinity of the gastroesophageal junction to treat obesity and/or its comorbidities, such as diabetes. The bypass sleeve may be at least partially deployed by eversion.

Devices and methods for endolumenal gastrointestinal bypass

Systems for joint arthroplasty include prostheses which are secured to bone with sliding anchors. Examples include unicondylar and bicondylar knee prostheses for hemi-arthroplasty and total arthroplasty. Instruments guide the anchors into proper engagement with the prosthetic components. Methods of using the prostheses and instruments are disclosed.

Arthroplasty systems and methods

A system for spinal surgery includes a prosthesis comprising a plurality of bone anchors which engage an intervertebral construct for fusion or motion preservation. The fusion construct comprises a spacer optionally encircled by a jacket. The motion preservation construct may comprise an articulating disc assembly or an elastomeric disc assembly. Any of the constructs may occupy the intervertebral disc space between adjacent vertebrae after removal of an intervertebral disc. The anchors slidingly engage the construct to securely fix the prosthesis to the vertebrae. The anchors and jacket of the fusion construct provide a continuous load path across opposite sides of the prosthesis so as to resist antagonistic motions of the spine.

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Chandler, AZ, United States of America

Joshua Butters