Method making it possible to produce the ideal curvature of a rod of vertebral osteosynthesis material designed to support a patient's vertebral column

Abstract

The method according the the invention comprises the following steps: a) taking a sagittal preoperative x-ray of the vertebral column of the patient to be treated, extending from the cervical vertebrae to the femoral heads; b) on that x-ray, identifying the pelvic parameters, the lumbar lordosis, the position of the apical lumbar vertebra, distances called SVA and SFD and a cloud of points; c) deducing, among predetermined morphotypes, the morphotype to which the treated vertebral column corresponds and deducing therefrom the desired postoperative apex point; d) positioning the different points of the cloud of points in a reference centered at the plate of S1; e) simulating the correction to be applied to the lumbar segment to be treated, by defining co-radial arcs situated below and above the desired postoperative apex point; defining two arcs concentric to the two curvatures obtained, which are tangent to each other at the apex point; f) translating these arcs away from the mean line of the vertebral column and defining a two- or three-dimensional model of the rod to be implanted, curved along the arcs.