Shock-absorbing intervertebral implant

Abstract

Abstract The invention concerns an intervertebral implant comprising a wedge designed to be pressed between two spinous processes of two vertebrae. The wedge comprises two elements (10, 12) made of a first material, having a first end (10a, 12a) and a second end (10b, 12b), said first end (10a, 12a) capable of being secured to a spinous process, and, a linking piece (14) made of a second material with greater elastic deformability than said first material, linking said second ends (10b 12b) of said two elements (10, 12) so that the loads exerted on said two elements (10, 12) are absorbed, whereby said intervertebral implant is adapted to limit and brake the relative movement of said vertebrae.

Inventors

• 👤 Régis Le Couedic
• 👤 Jacques Senegas

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