Patent ID: 8882846

Claim:
A surgical process for affixing an elbow implant into the ulna, the surgical process comprising: drilling a hole through an olecranon process such that said hole is generally axially aligned with an intermedullary canal of the ulna: subsequently separating art the olecranon process with a triceps tendon attached thereto from the ulna so as to expose an end of an intermedullary canal of the ulna; inserting a stem of the elbow implant into the intermedullary canal, said stem having an end extending outwardly of the end of the ulna, the step of inserting the stem being subsequent to the step of separating the olecranon process; and affixing said olecranon process with the triceps tendon attached thereto onto the exposed end of the ulna; wherein the elbow implant has a body with a hinged relationship extending transverse to the stem and a screw hole formed axially along the stem, the step of affixing said olecranon process comprising: inserting a screw into said screw hole so as to affix said olecranon process onto the exposed end of the ulna.