Stryker Facts
The founder of Stryker's first name.
Homer
A high energy electromagnetic radiation test used to create pictures of bones.
What is an X-ray?
This team member dreams daily about doing Gamma nails with Dr. Radley.
Who is Trent?
This is used when nailing a long bone to assist in reduction and guide the implant through the canal.
What is a ball-tip guide wire?
This organ can completely regrow from just 30% of its original size.
What is the liver?
This company was purchased in 2013 by Stryker for $1.65 billion dollars.
MAKO
A non-invasive test that uses a strong magnetic field and radio waves to create images of organs and soft tissues.
What is an MRI?
This person has a last name that would make you think his work was the opposite of bad.
Who is Dr. Goode?
For most femur and tibia nails, this is the diameter of the screws that are used to interlock the nail.
What is 5mm?
The only tissue in the body that doesn't have blood vessels.
What is the Cornea?
This is where the Stryker Headquarters is located.
What is Kalamazoo, Michigan?
Specialized chemical given to a patient to improve visibility of internal body structures.
What is contrast?
This person is known to perform the fastest text message in human history.
Who is Dr. Copp?
This is the name for the new Stryker nailing platform that is used at FGH, also the first letter of the Greek alphabey.
What is Alpha?
The name of a man that worked on the railroad in 1848 and was impaled through his head with a metal rod and survived with minimal issues.
Who was Phineas Gage?
This company was purchased in 2020 for a $4 billion dollar value to add upper and lower extremity strength to the company's portfolio.
Wright Medical/Tornier
Imaging test that uses a series of xray images taken from different angles around the body to create cross sectional images.
What is a CT scan?
This person has an instrument named for them, the blunt Hohmann, because there is no filter in what is going to be said.
Who is Brittany?
This is the name of the proximal bend in a Stryker Tibia nail.
What is a Herzog bend?
This material is one of the biggest breakthroughs in Total Joint replacement to allow better attachment to the bone for increased longevity.
What is porous titanium?
Stryker's real entry into the Orthopedic industry was in 1998 with the purchase/ merger of this company.
Who is Howmedica-Osteonics?
Advanced post processing technique that uses traditional CT slices and compiles them into a fully interactive model of the anatomy.
What is a 3D CT reconstruction?
This person was the 2nd person hired to the Ortho Trauma team and had the shortest tenure of all the people that have moved on to other jobs.
Who is Adam?
This is the actual name for a blocking screw.
What is a Poller screw?
The healthy parts of the human brain can learn to take over functions previously managed by damaged sections is known as
What is neuroplasticity?