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VariAx 2® Distal Radius
and VariAx 2® Distal Ulna

Variable Angle Locking Plate System
The VariAx 2 Distal Radius and VariAx 2 Distal Ulna Plating Systems provides you with a comprehensive range of anatomic plating options that work with a common instrument and screw platform. Plates utilize SmartLock technology which permits polyaxial screw placement. You can angle locking screws up to 15˚in each direction for a total range of 30˚ providing you with the flexibility to position screws based on the patient, not a plate’s pre-existing design.

Product offerings

Anatomic Volar Plates
 

A. 
Watershed line design allows for enhanced buttressing of DRUJ & volar lunate facet

B. 
2 pre-tilted radial styloid screw holes allow screws to capture radial styloid fragments

C. 
Plate Thickness: 2mm

D. 
All circular holes capable of accepting 2.7mm and 2.4mm locking or non-locking screws or 2.0mm locking pegs

Anatomic Volar Plates
VariAx Platee Family

Dorsal and Fragment Specific Plates

Standard Dorsal Plate: 

  • SOMA designed
  • 2mm thickness
  • Styloid screw hole that can be bent if desired to patient’s need
  • Low plate profile and flush screws to minimize soft tissue irritation
  • Buttressing of the complete dorsal rim
  • Pre-angulated divergent screw trajectories distally

 

Lateral Plate:

  • SOMA designed
  • 2mm thickness
  • Distal K-wire holes for paperclipping and additional small fragment fixation

 

Dorsal Medial Plate:

  • SOMA designed
  • 2mm thickness, 0.75mm distal taper thickness
  • Sits medial to Lister’s Tubercle
  • Distal K-wire holes allow for additional small fragment fixation using paper-clip technique.

 

Dorsal Lateral Plate:

  • SOMA designed
  • 2mm thickness, 0.75mm distal taper thickness
  • Sits lateral to Lister’s Tubercle
  • Distal K-wire holes allow for additional small fragment fixation using paper-clip technique.

Volar Rim Plate: 

  • SOMA designed
  • 1.6mm thickness, 1.0mm distal taper thickness
  • The vertical K-wire slots allow for distal or proximal adjustment and the horizontal K-wire slots allow for lateral or medial adjustment of the plate.
  • Sits on volar lip at the lunate facet
  • Hooks to grab small distal fragments, which cannot be fixed with screws​
  • K-wire holes can be used for placing sutures in the volar capsule

 

Distal Ulna Hook Plate:

  • SOMA designed
  • 1.5mm thickness
  • Distal hook allows for fragment reduction by K-wire prior to plate fixation and plate can be slid over K-wire for final reduction

 

Distal Ulna Base Plate:

  • SOMA designed
  • 1.7mm thickness
  • Distal screw cluster offers more fixation options in a narrow footprint.

 

Wrist Spanning Plate:

  • SOMA designed
  • 3mm thickness
  • Offered in 2 lengths
  • Clustered pairs of holes are designed to align with dorsal distal radius and bones of the carpus
  • Tapered ends allow for easy plate sliding through ETC.

SOMA® Designed

Only by truly understanding the challenges you face can we offer a portfolio to best fit your needs. With anatomically contoured plates designed or validated using our proprietary SOMA technology, streamlined instrumentation, and trained representatives, our plating portfolio is designed with you in mind.

SOMA Designed

Our plating portfolio ranges from indication specific plates and patented Smartlock technology to streamlined instrumentation for ease-of-use in the OR. Helping to solve  complicated fractures with simple innovative solutions – Plating that fits.

Stryker Orthopaedic Modeling and Analytics, or SOMA, consists of a database of over 34,600 3D bones generated from CT scans of patients. This comprehensive database and proprietary software helps design a better fitting implant and allows for true evidence based design.

Screw Options

The VariAx 2 screws allow for ±15 degrees of angulation. A lip on the drill sleeve will engage and allow toggling in the hole. The range in which the drill guide toggles will create a 30-degree cone and every angle in  this range will be a locking position. This may allow the surgeon to aim where the screw / peg should be placed. Also, depending on the placement of the plate, there may be a need to angle a screw/ peg out of the fracture line. The 2.0mm drill guide for T8 Screws facilitates drilling a 2.0mm pilot hole for a 2.4 or 2.7mm T8 screw or a 2.0mm peg centrically for locking or non-locking screws.

 

XXL Plating Options

XXL Plating Options:

There are sixteen additional plates in 74mm (5 hole), 100mm (8 hole),145mm (11 hole) and 189mm (15 hole) lengths, standard and narrow widths, and in left and right anatomic shapes. These plates are pre-curved to fit the radial bow. The stronger plate design includes a smooth transition from 2 to 3mm at the meta-diaphyseal intersection of the plate. The pre-angled screw holes in the distal part of the plate and Z-shaped screw hole configuration in the shaft allow for additional flexibility in fracture fixation. The Higher profile plate design allows for stronger fixation in osteotomies, mal-unions and non-unions.  

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