Patent ID: 9737405
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: A61B,A61F

Claim:
1. A method of performing a surgical procedure to implant an orthopaedic hip prosthesis into an intramedullary canal of a patient's femur, comprising: engaging a rotatable locking screw extending from a body of a trial shaft with a proximal end of a threaded bore of a reamer positioned in the intramedullary canal of the patient's femur, threading the rotatable locking screw of the trial shaft into the threaded bore of the reamer to advance the body of the selected trial shaft distally toward a proximal end of a reamer positioned in the intramedullary canal of the patient's femur, installing a discrete trial neck on the trial shaft after the trial shaft is attached to the proximal end of the reamer positioned in the intramedullary canal of the patient's femur, and rotating the trial neck relative to the trial shaft so as to position the trial neck in a number of different versions.