Patent ID: 7803188

Claim:
An intravertebral reduction system, comprising: a plurality of reduction elements positionable in an intravertebral space adjacent one another in contact with bony tissue, wherein said plurality of reduction elements act one upon the other upon sequential positioning thereof in the intravertebral space to compress cancellous bony tissue and apply an outwardly directed corrective force in the vertebral body, wherein said plurality of reduction elements are selected in number to occupy a reduction element volume within the intravertebral space that obtains a desired vertebral reduction; voids between respective ones of said plurality of reduction elements; and means for fixing said plurality of reduction elements at said reduction element volume in engagement with one another in the intravertebral space in a manner maintaining the obtained vertebral reduction despite variations in spinal loading, said means including material filling said voids and locking said plurality of reduction elements relative to one another.