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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2023
Treace Medical Concepts, Inc., Ponte Vedra, FL (US);
Paul Dayton, Ankeny, IA (US);
William T. Decarbo, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Daniel J. Hatch, Greeley, CO (US);
Jody Mcaleer, Jefferson City, MO (US);
Robert D. Santrock, Morgantown, WV (US);
W. Bret Smith, Durango, CO (US);
Mark Erik Easley, Durham, NC (US);
Bryan Wilcox, St. Augustine, FL (US);
Treace Medical Concepts, Inc., Ponte Vedra, FL (US);
Abstract
Instruments and techniques can be used to release a first metatarsal for realignment. In some implementations, a techniques involves surgically accessing a sesamoidal ligament in a foot of a patient and advancing a guiding projection of a cutting instrument under the sesamoidal ligament. This can capture the sesamoidal ligament between the guiding projection of the cutting instrument and a cutting surface of the cutting instrument that is recessed relative to a distal end of the guiding projection. The techniques further involves cutting the sesamoidal ligament with the cutting surface of the cutting instrument.