Halo crown

• US 6,468,238 B1
• Filed: 10/13/2000
• Issued: 10/22/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Depuy Acromed Incorporated (Johnson & Johnson)
• Original Assignee: Depuy Acromed Incorporated (Johnson & Johnson)
• Inventors: Smith, Eric, Hawkins, J. Riley, Knapik, John
• Primary Examiner(s): DeMille, Danton D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): THANH, QUANG D
• Application Number:
  US09/687,135
• Time in Patent Office: 739 Days
• Field of Search: A61/F.500, 602/17, 602/36-37, 602/18-19, 602/33, 602/40, 128/DIG.23, 606/130, 606/54, 606/56, 606/59
• US Class Current: 602/17
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/14 Fixators for body parts, e.g. skull clamps; Constructional details of fixators, e.g. pins
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 5/055 Cervical collars

Abstract

A halo crown has depending posterior legs adjustable in multiple dimensions for conveniently adjusting the halo crown to a patient'"'"'s skull. Each leg slides along a single axis yet provides adjustments in three dimensions due to a portion thereof extending downwardly, inwardly and rearwardly and the orientation of the axis.

Claims

1. A medical halo comprising:

an elongated first arch shaped to generally extend about a portion of the periphery of an individual'"'"'s head and to lie in laterally spaced relation thereto;

at least one leg extending posteriorly from said first arch and extending over a posterior portion of the individual'"'"'s head, said first arch comprises at least one channel formed therein having a first axis, and wherein at least a portion of the at least one leg is slidably disposed within the at least one channel, said leg being moveable along said first axis having a posterior-anterior component and a medial-lateral component; and

at least one first contact member on said at least one leg.

2. A medical halo according to claim 1 wherein said first contact member is a pin clamp.

3. A medical halo according to claim 1 wherein said at least one leg comprises a first portion extending posteriorly from and slidably attached to said first arch and a second portion depending inferiorly from said first portion.

4. A medical halo according to claim 3 wherein said second portion also extends medially.

5. A medical halo according to claim 4 wherein said first portion also extends inferiorly and said first axis also has a posterior-inferior component.

6. A medical halo according to claim 5 wherein movement of the first portion along the first axis in one direction moves the second portion inferiorly, posteriorly and laterally, and movement of the first portion along the first axis in an opposite direction moves the second portion superiorly, anteriorly and medially.

7. A medical halo according to claim 1 further comprising a positioning pad on said first arch.

8. A medical halo according to claim 7 wherein said positioning pad is elastomeric and shaped to elastically fit onto the first arch.

9. A medical halo according to claim 1 further comprising a second arch connected to the first arch and out of planar relationship with the first arch whereby to provide rigidity to the first arch.

10. A medical halo according to claim 1 wherein the first arch is injection molded.

11. A medical halo according to claim 1 having two legs.

12. A medical halo according to claim 1 and further comprising at least one slideable member slideably affixed to the first arch and bearing a second contact member.

13. A medical halo according to claim 12 wherein the first arch and the at least one slideable member have complimentary interlocking shapes such that the slideable member is slideable along the first arch yet can not rotate around the first arch.

14. A medical halo according to claim 12 wherein the at least one slideable member can be affixed to the first arch after the medical halo has been installed on the individual'"'"'s head.

15. A medical halo according to claim 14 wherein the at least one slideable member comprises a first section and a second section which are separable from one another whereas to allow the slideable member to be affixed to the first arch after the medical halo has been installed on the individual'"'"'s head.