Patent ID: 9278214
Filing Date: 2016-03-08
CPC Classification: A61B,A61N

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: engaging a bone anchor to a location on a vertebral body when the vertebral body is in a first orientation; coupling the bone anchor with a correction tool; manipulating the correction tool to move the vertebral body toward a second orientation with the bone anchor; electrically monitoring the bone anchor with a nerve monitoring system that provides an electrical signal that travels through the correction tool to the bone anchor to detect interference between a neural element and the bone anchor while the vertebral body is moved toward the second orientation; and retaining the vertebral body in the second orientation by coupling a connecting element to the bone anchor and an implant engaged to a second vertebral body, the connecting element being spaced apart from the implant while the correction tool is manipulated to move the vertebral body.