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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2007
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2003
Applicant:
Mark J. Warburton, High Point, NC (US);
Inventor:
Mark J. Warburton, High Point, NC (US);
Assignee:
Piper Medical, Inc., High Point, NC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/56 (2006.01); A61B 17/58 (2006.01); A61F 2/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods and devices for treating fractures in or adjacent the wrist and distal forearm employ an intramedullary interlocking fixation rod (i.e, it interlocks the distal and proximal fracture fragments together) to stabilize the skeletal structure in a manner which can inhibit the amount of collapse or loss in skeletal length exhibited by a patient with a distal radius fracture.