Stryker Showcases a Number of New Products at AAOS

Each year, the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons bring together incredibly diverse members of the orthopedic community—healthcare providers, manufacturers, suppliers, consultants, analysts and so many others.

It’s always a venue for new product releases. 2012’s installment is no different.

Stryker Corp. is using the AAOS meeting, held this year at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Calif., to showcase a number of new product offerings. Also this year, the company is celebrating “75 Years of Innovation,” a reference to 1937, when the company’s founder, Dr. Homer Stryker, first began inventing and selling new medical device technologies in Kalamazoo, Mich. (still the company’s headquarters).

Products and services highlighted at this year’s AAOS annual meeting include new heavy-duty power tools. Company officials noted that the latest offering, called System 7, builds on more than 30 years of cordless surgical power tool development. System 7 offers cutting technology for large-bone surgeries.

Also released at AAOS was new computer-assisted surgery technology for trauma procedures. Stryker’s ADAPT System powers the company’s FluoroMap software and provides adaptive positioning technology for the Gamma3 locking nail system.

On the implant side, Stryker features new products for spinal surgery and shoulder arthroplasty. 


The Aria spinal system provides a solution for minimally invasive, transpsoas access and spinal implant delivery with an open neuro-monitoring strategy. In addition, the AVS Anchor-C cervical cage system is designed for anterior cervical fusion procedures in adults (the company calls these folks “skeletally mature”), featuring an integrated design that allows for rigid screw fixation without any added anterior profile.

The ReUnion TSA (total shoulder arthroplasty) modular system leverages revolutionary implant technology and thoughtfully designed instrumentation to deliver the next generation in total shoulder arthroplasty systems, featuring what Stryker officials claim is the first highly crosslinked polyethylene (X3) glenoids on the market.

Not exactly a medical device, but the company also released the Studio 3 Media Asset Manager, which provides a centralized storage solution for the archiving and management of surgical videos and images.