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Various surgical procedures in people and animals include a fixation step, procedure, use of a device (also referred to as a fixator), or the like. The fixation feature, or function, may be between two pieces of bone, between two soft tissues, between soft tissue and bone, or within a medullary cavity of a long bone. Unfortunately, many known long bone fixation techniques, steps, procedures, devices, or components are complicated, difficult to deploy, involve multiple parts, are not easy to deploy when a patient has received a prosthesis such as a joint or fixation prostheses, femoral component for a partial or total knee replacement (TKR) procedure, a femoral component for a total hip replacement, experienced a peri-implant fracture, and have other limitations.

Added by DJM 8 2021