James Luczak
Nursing at Greene Ave, Pueblo, CO

6159215, Dec 12, 2000

Dec 18, 1998

9/216440

David J. Urbahns - Beachwood OH
Dale G. Davison - Westlake OH
Kenneth Danylchuk - Pueblo CO
James C. Luczak - Pueblo CO
Ronald Moskovich - Mamaronek NY
Thomas Camino - Warsaw ID
Joel C. Rhoades - Pierceton ID

Depuy Acromed, Inc. - Raynam MA

A61F 500

606 86

A spacer-insertion instrument for delivering a spacer to a spine is disclosed. The instrument includes a handle portion and a guide coupled to the handle portion. The instrument further includes a shaft coupled to the handle portion and extending along the guide. The instrument further includes a tip including an attachment end portion coupled to the shaft and opposing fingers movable relative to one another and adapted to grasp the spacer when the shaft is moved to actuate the fingers. The handle portion includes a grip and a trigger coupled to the grip and to the shaft and movement of the trigger toward the grip causes the fingers to move toward one another. A method for delivering a vertebral body spacer to a disc space formed in a spine between adjacent vertebral bodies is also disclosed.