Intellectual Property

The system facilitates surgical access to the spine by managing tissue and foreign bodies through a minimally invasive, endoscopic approach. It ensures accurate placement and positioning of the retractor and its components, enhancing access, visualization, and stabilization of the surgical site.

A retractor system and related methods for use in spinal surgery procedures , including but not limited to fusing or repairing damaged or deteriorated intervertebral discs or vertebral bodies in the lower lumbar levels . The retractor system includes a plurality of blade assemblies coupled to a handle assembly , wherein each of the blade assemblies may be independently adjusted ( e . g . length blade and / or blade angulation and / or blade rotation relative to the handle assembly ) to provide unprecedented customization of an operative corridor extending to the surgical target site of the patient such that any number of spinal surgery procedures may be undertaken by a surgeon , including but not limited to spinal fusion procedures at the L5 – S1 disc space .