US 20050085815A1
(19) United States
(12) Patent Application Publication (io) Pub. No.: US 2005/0085815 Al
Harms et al. (43) Pub. Date: Apr. 21,2005
(54) ROD-SHAPED IMPLANT ELEMENT FOR
APPLICATION IN SPINE SURGERY OR
TRAUMA SURGERY, STABILIZATION
APPARATUS COMPRISING SAID
ROD-SHAPED IMPLANT ELEMENT, AND
PRODUCTION METHOD FOR THE
ROD-SHAPED IMPLANT ELEMENT
(75) Inventors: Jurgen Harms, Karlsruhe (DE); Lutz Biedermann, VS-Villingen (DE); Wilfried Matthis, Weisweil (DE)
Correspondence Address:
EDWARDS & ANGELL, LLP
P.O. BOX 55874
BOSTON, MA 02205 (US)
(73) Assignee: Biedermann Motech GmbH
(21) Appl. No.: 10/966,921
(22) Filed: Oct. 15, 2004
Related U.S. Application Data
(60) Provisional application No. 60/512,113, filed on Oct. 17, 2003. Provisional application No. 60/518,469, filed on Nov. 7, 2003.
(30) Foreign Application Priority Data
Oct. 17, 2003 (DE) 103 48 329.2
Publication Classification
(51) Int. CI.7 A61B 17 56
(52) U.S. C I 606/61
(57) ABSTRACT
A rod-shaped implant element (1, 100, 101, 102, 300) is
disclosed for the connection ol bone anchoring elements, Each bone anchoring element has an anchoring section (12) to be anchored in the bone and a receiver member (13) to be connected to the rod-shaped implant element The rodshaped implant element has at least one rigid section (7, 8) that is configured to be placed in the receiver member (13). It also has a flexible section (9, 90, 900, 902) that is adjacent to the rigid section. The flexible section and the rigid section are formed in one piece. Also disclosed is a stabilization apparatus using a rod-shaped implant element and at least two of the bone anchoring elements. The stabilization apparatus can limit the movement of two vertebrae or parts of a bone in relation to each other in a defined manner.
