Patent ID: 8764834

Claim:
A method of limiting the movability of an intervertebral disk prosthesis with regard to pivoting movements, including the step of: asymmetrically limiting at least one of a flexion-extension movement, a lateral bending, and a rotation about a vertical axis of an intervertebral disk prosthesis in order to limit the movability of said prosthesis, wherein said asymmetrically limiting step comprises first permanently fixing artificial vertebral end plates on adjoining vertebral bodies, and removably connecting at least one of said intervertebral disk prosthesis in the form of an articulated intervertebral disk prosthesis and measures for asymmetrical movement limitation with said artificial vertebral end plates, wherein said movement-limitation measure is an approximately U-shaped shock absorber that has different elastic characteristics over its length; and carrying out alternations of movablilty limitations during a repair operation in such a way that said measurements for asymmetrical limitation of movability are removed from said artificial vertebral end plates and are replaced by new ones that are removably connected with original ones of vertebral end plates.