Patent ID: 8157804

Claim:
A method of adding stability to a long bone comprising the steps of: accessing the marrow cavity of the long bone; inserting a device into the marrow cavity, wherein the device has a plunger with a blade parallel to the axis of the plunger; reducing the volume of trabecular bone within the marrow cavity by bending the blade convexially from an axis of the plunger while rotating the blade about the axis of the plunger using a threaded track between the plunger of the device and a housing of the device, thereby cutting an ovoid path through the trabecular bone, wherein a proximal end of the blade is coupled to a distal end of the plunger of the device, and a distal end of the blade is coupled to the housing of the device; and instilling a biological binding material into the marrow cavity of the long bone, wherein the amount of the biological binding material instilled is sufficient to add stability to the long bone.