Patent ID: 11877759
Assignee: CROSSROADS EXTREMITY SYSTEMS, LLC
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 6:
7. A method for performing syndesmotic reconstruction using a syndesmotic reconstruction guide assembly comprising a medial arm comprising a medial foot and a lateral arm comprising a lateral foot, comprising:
securing the syndesmotic reconstruction guide assembly to bones of a syndesmotic joint by positioning the medial foot of the medial arm of the syndesmotic reconstruction guide assembly, the medial foot having at least one degree of freedom relative to the medial arm of the syndesmotic reconstruction guide assembly, against a first bone of the syndesmotic joint and positioning the lateral foot of the lateral arm of the syndesmotic reconstruction guide assembly, the lateral arm being mated with the medial arm in a slidable relationship, against a second bone of the syndesmotic joint;
aligning the syndesmotic reconstruction guide assembly relative to the syndesmotic joint;
forming one or more sets of anchor holes in the bones of the syndesmotic joint with tooling guided by the syndesmotic reconstruction guide assembly; and
anchoring the bones together by positioning an anchoring implant within each of the one or more sets of anchor holes.