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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2017
Trimed, Incorporated, Santa Clarita, CA (US);
Ignatius Petrus Stefanus Terblanche, Milnerton, ZA;
Jacques Marais, Durbanville, ZA;
Jacobus Frederick Janse Van Vuuren, Saldanha, ZA;
Stephan Janse Van Vuuren, Saldanha, ZA;
TriMed, Incorporated, Santa Clarita, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention provides a plantar plate repair device to facilitate the appropriate placement of sutures during a plantar plate repair. The device comprises a shaft terminating in a footprint projecting angularly from the shaft, the footprint further defining an opening through which a needle is threadable. The shaft further includes a guide slidable on the shaft to operatively clamp the plantar plate between the guide and footprint. A needle receiving guide hole is provided on the guide to operatively guide a needle through the opening in the footprint to pass a length of suture from the needle through the plantar plate.