Method and device for minimizing the risk of future hip fractures

摘要

Two implant devices cooperate to form a single reinforcement device for minimizing the risk of future hip fractures in the vulnerable intertrochanteric and adjacent femoral neck regions of a patient identified as being at significant risk for hip fracture. The two implant devices are sequentially inserted through the same incision and each has a respective head portion, a respectively upwardly or downwardly curved intermediate portion preferably having a generally constant rectangular cross section, and a tapered tail portion, with the head portion of the first implant device having a suitably shaped and positioned opening adapted to receive the constant cross section portion of the second device, and with an enlarged head portion of the second implant device adapted to maintain the second device at a desired orientation relative to the first device and to constrain the second device from excessive insertion relative to the first device after the two devices have been sequentially inserted through the single incision.