Smith+Nephew has introduced its new CORI™ Digital Tensioner—a purpose-built device that lets surgeons measure the ligament tension in a knee prior to cutting bone. By enabling a surgeon to quantify joint laxity in the native knee and achieve an optimal ligament tensioning force, the CORI Digital Tensioner helps to reduce variability when balancing the knee in surgery. This helps make surgical planning more objective versus other commercially available alternatives. The device produces a surgeon-defined, quantifiable force to distract the knee joint, apply consistent tension to the ligaments, and provide objective gap data for procedure planning and execution. A small clinical case series showed the CORI Digital Tensioner reduced variability of tensioning by 64% when compared to a manual technique.
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