Patent ID: 9216090
Filing Date: 2015-12-22
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
1. Trial component of a prosthesis, the trial component having an outer surface including at least one recess for interfacing with at least one groove of a joint adapter which can be attached to a stem module or anchored within a bone, wherein the trial component has a radially oriented slit which allows compression of the trial component for easy insertion and removal into the joint adapter, wherein the trial component is a liner which has a recessed concave spherical cavity, a concave inner surface, and a thickness, wherein the recessed spherical cavity acts as a cup of a patient's humeral joint, and wherein the radially oriented slit extends through the thickness of the liner, the radially oriented slit extending from a bottom surface to a top surface of the liner, and across a majority of a diameter of a circle in a top view of the concave inner surface of the liner.