Patent ID: 9439675
Filing Date: 2016-09-13
CPC Classification: A61B,A61F

Claim Text:
1. A method of creating a portal incision from inside a hip in a hip arthroplasty, comprising: creating a main incision in a skin in the hip to expose an acetabulum; inserting a tubular body into the main incision in preparation for determining a proper location for the portal incision, the tubular body, comprising: aligning the directional tool to be perpendicular to a face of the acetabulum so that the lead points towards the proper location for the portal incision; feeding a flexible tool from outside the hip into the first portion to exit the second portion inside of the hip directed towards the proper location for the portal incision from inside the hip; advancing the flexible tool through non-critical tissues to create a path towards the proper location for the portal incision; and creating the portal incision through the skin at the proper location identified by the flexible tool.