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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2018
Empirical Spine, Inc., Woodside, CA (US);
Todd Alamin, Woodside, CA (US);
Manish Kothari, San Carlos, CA (US);
Hugues Malandain, Mountain View, CA (US);
Colin Cahill, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Louis Fielding, San Carlos, CA (US);
Empirical Spine, Inc., Woodside, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for coupling a prosthesis to a spinal segment in a patient includes the steps of selecting first and second reference points disposed along the spinal segment and pre-operatively measuring a target distance. The target distance extends between the first and second reference points while the patient is in a preferred posture such as the standing position. A prosthesis is coupled to the spinal segment and the prosthesis is then intra-operatively adjusted in order to set the distance between the first and second reference points based on the target distance.