Paragraph Number

271

The reduction stabilizer 1650 serves to hold, maintain, and/or retain a reduction in place so that a surgeon can prepare and/or plan for subsequent steps in a surgical procedure. The reduction stabilizer 1650 can be embodied in any structure that accomplishes and/or maintains the stabilized reduction. In the illustrated embodiment, the reduction stabilizer 1650 engages one or more fasteners of a first bone fragment, such as proximal bone fragment 224b and one or more fasteners of a second bone fragment, such as distal bone fragment 224a.

Added by DJM Jan 2024