Patent ID: 8414618

Claim:
A vertebral column implant comprising a connecting element and a plurality of bone screws, each bone screw having a seat in a screwhead for the connecting element, the seat of the screwhead of each of the plurality of bone screws fixing the connecting element in the seat, segments of the connecting element between adjacent seats being fastened in place by the adjacent seats and having bending elasticity between adjacent vertebrae for flexible elastic stabilization of the segments between adjacent vertebrae, the connecting element being made of an elastic material, bendable elastically about every axis of its cross-section in such a way that the connecting element is passed longitudinally through, or inserted in, the seats of the screwheads, one behind the other, even when the seats are not situated on one and the same axis and the connecting element elastically stabilizing a vertebral column of a person having severe back pain by elastic adjustment of the connecting element of both tensile and compressive forces between successive bone screws.